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Definition of cute in English: cuteadjective kjuːtkjut 1Attractive in a pretty or endearing way. she had a cute little nose Example sentencesExamples - After I woke up you looked so cute with ruffled hair and your sweet smile.
- He laughed, and I noticed that he had really cute dimples.
- Expect a shrine to him some day in the future on my fotopage, he's a pretty cute kid.
- And I haven't had any luck attracting cute little kittens to the window.
- The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom.
- I had woken Zeke up and he had then given me a cute smile.
- Summer and Marissa looking gorgeous in a pretty skirt and very cute dress both by Burning Torch.
- Of course, holding my beer and smudged in black grease, I had to pass some snide comment over the irony, and got a pretty cute smile for my efforts.
- As I reached Main Street, all I could think was how cute and charming it looked.
- It's a very modern city, with very pretty people in very pretty and cute clothes walking busily around.
- Romeo looked so cute with his hair sticking out from underneath his beanie.
- There is an endearing bunch of cute and funny characters.
- Attractive subjects are cute animals, pretty women, nice landscapes, interesting portraits.
- And isn't there something about the way her facial makeup makes her nose look almost flattened at the end, like a cute little kitten?
- Snowflakes in glassine envelopes are pretty cute.
- People are still worshipping cute fluffy kittens in direct contradiction to the UN Resolution 1441.
- He smiled down at me, two very cute dimples appearing on his cheeks.
- And the thing about lemurs is they pretty much define cute.
- The contribution of these experienced taste-makers has been evident since deliveries of their cute tweed jackets and pretty camisoles first hit Gap branches last autumn.
- Her sweet voice and cute, large eyes attracted most people.
Synonyms endearing, adorable, lovable, sweet, lovely, appealing, engaging, delightful, dear, darling, winning, winsome, charming, enchanting attractive, pretty, as pretty as a picture chocolate-box Scottish & Northern English bonny informal cutesy, dinky, twee, pretty-pretty, adorbs - 1.1North American informal Sexually attractive; good-looking.
Ryan's cute but he's kinda young Example sentencesExamples - When I got off the ride, a really cute boy started to take my seat.
- The spaceships had cool design and the girl was pretty cute.
- But he would look so much cuter without the dark sunglasses that hide too much of his face.
- This sophisticated giant oozes sex appeal as well as being cute and pretty, perfect for a woman like me.
- Three pretty girls, one hidden behind too much make up, four pretty cute guys.
- She put her arm around one of our players, Aaron Beattie, and says ‘This guy's pretty cute!’
- They approach the cute, pretty women on the streets to offer them to join the company to earn fast money.
- I don't understand it either, but she always looks so funny and cute at the same time.
- I think I just fell in love with you for being so damn cute.
- He was pretty cute too, in a dumb blond surfer way.
- Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute.
- In addition to that, he's funny, cute, pretty sweet, and has a killer body.
- ‘I thought she was cute and pretty but a little frantic,’ Perkins recalled.
- She was cute with light brown hair falling to her shoulders and pale eyes.
- And the rhythm guitarist and the bass player were pretty cute.
- She says that she practices for hours a day not to look cute or pretty, but to become a good DJ.
- So I sat there next to two very cute naked French girls scanning the horizon.
- I wasn't stupid, I knew they were pretty cute looking guys.
- The person behind the counter had changed, to a really cute boy.
- Also - dig his cute lil baby face and sexy Big Man's Voice.
2North American informal Clever or cunning, especially in a self-seeking or superficial way. the two brothers were cute enough to find a couple of rich women and marry them Example sentencesExamples - She had to admit, the two vertical dashes and the bracket-turned-on-its-side made a pretty cute smiley face.
- Some of the sketches depict the cute mental mnemonics that Penrose employs to keep ideas clearly in his mind.
- There's a tendency to think of satire as cute and clever.
- A cute idea if properly handled - but Hensher can never work out quite what he wants to do with it.
- It's not with Microsoft, not with Nokia, and if it's cute and quick, it has a shot at re-establishing itself as a leader.
- That's a cute idea, too: like most of the film, it looks better on paper.
- Bee Season's depiction of Flora's magical ability to spell almost any word straddles the line between being clever and too cute.
- Once Slatkin stepped a bit on the pedal, it worked out very nicely and the trumpet call from the wings was at least a cute idea.
- But beyond anything except the most superficial level, this particular stereotype is cute, but silly.
- A cute idea is to spell out your friends name in glitter, and randomly spread rhinestones around it.
- Nice to see how objectivity flies out of the window when people see a cute idea.
- It's pretty cute, you mark where you come from on the map, with a little person-icon you choose.
- Most people think they can open up a nightclub because all you need is alcohol, music, some staff, and a cute idea.
- There are some cute ideas here - like glasses that keep things cold for a long time.
- And all this time I thought Helen Fielding was just being cute and clever in using the term.
- He gives in to temptation in other places too… gets a little too cute, wants to look a little too clever.
- I have been trying to think of how I want to decorate my blog come holiday time, and I have finally come up with a cute idea.
- Sam took a deep breath and picked up the newspaper, forcing back the idea to throw it at something cute and fluffy.
- This is kind of a cute idea, a theatrical tribute to the movies.
- Kris and I just finished watching Mean Girls, which I thought was a pretty cute movie.
- The first time I heard about the Slow Food movement, recently arrived on our shores from its native Italy, I thought the whole idea sounded cute.
- I saw a very cute idea done on a mini tree that would work well for rosemary.
- But, you know, my mom and my dad told me about this show, and I just thought it was such a cute idea.
- For that moment, her coquettish cleverness and quick, cute remarks melted away.
- It's a cute idea that invariably entrances young children, hence the longevity of this work through the ages.
- It's got its own differences and twists here and there and it's actually a pretty cute story.
- Without The Beatles, the odds are that Paul McCartney would have been just another good writer of cute, catchy and clever pop songs.
- If you can get past McPhee's overly cute wordplay, you'll find this an extremely helpful resource in interpreting your dreams.
Synonyms shrewd, astute, sharp, acute, quick, sharp-witted, quick-witted
Derivatives adverb ˈkjuːtliˈkjutli We gave her samples of a couple of different frappuccinos, and chatted her and her mother up while she politely and cutely jumped around trying to make up her mind about what she wanted. Example sentencesExamples - Shia LaBeouf plays Stanley Yelnats, a boy with a cutely palindromic name sent to a bizarrely tough reformatory called Camp Green Lake, after being wrongly convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers.
- So, I show up in my cutely cropped jeans and my light blue trendy tie-dyed preggers tunic all ready to get sauce all over my face.
- Yuki cocked her head cutely to one side with a miniature question mark blinking about her face.
- The sun has been drifting in and out, baby clothes have been fluttering cutely on the washing line, all the garden toys have been brought out of their winter storage.
- The cutely dressed children may look angelic, but they're definitely kids of the modern age.
- Intentionally bred and cutely named, today's special-order mixes have new found status - and a purebred price tag.
- Lining the streets are a variety of mismatched buildings, some cutely painted, others less so.
- He disembarks and smiles so cutely at me, conveying both graciousness and modesty (OK, it was a dream).
- The two girls were fair, round-faced, bare-legged and smiling cutely, the boys (her youngest brother still a baby) darker and grinning.
- Most Crikey readers would have seen the 7: 30 Report last night on what it so cutely called ‘targeted largesse’.
- Though such posts are cutely endearing, their appeal doesn't entirely outweigh the cheesecake pictures of bikini-clad women that litter the site.
- One guy is tall, square jawed with even features and a full head of cutely tousled hair.
- The Shyonite woman, who was considerably older than her husband (though she looked no older than twenty), pouted cutely and hugged him tight.
- One idea is for a cutely named five-frog tax system, which would actually deliver rebates to those who conserved the environment, and taxed those who didn't.
- They're painful and playful at once, a hard trick to pull off without coming off as cutely self-effacing.
- On the down side, every fifth stall has a spaced-out looking granddad of the love generation selling cutely cloying portrayals of gnomes, wood spirits or elves.
- This title cutely captures the magic of the movies while doing justice to the fun of Lego.
- Maybe I was just better caffeinated than you, but I found the import of the story pretty clear, and it bore little relation to the version you so cutely satirized.
- We can all agree that no one, male or female, looks cutely sexy in Fruit of the Looms, can't we?
Origin Early 18th century (in the sense 'clever, shrewd'): shortening of acute. This started out in the 18th century as a shortened form of acute (see accent) and originally meant ‘clever or shrewd’. The sense ‘attractive or pretty’ dates from late 19th-century America. Cutesy, meaning ‘cute in a sickly or sentimental way’, is also American, and was first recorded in 1914.
Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of cute in US English: cuteadjectivekjutkyo͞ot 1Attractive in a pretty or endearing way. Example sentencesExamples - And isn't there something about the way her facial makeup makes her nose look almost flattened at the end, like a cute little kitten?
- After I woke up you looked so cute with ruffled hair and your sweet smile.
- People are still worshipping cute fluffy kittens in direct contradiction to the UN Resolution 1441.
- The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom.
- I had woken Zeke up and he had then given me a cute smile.
- He laughed, and I noticed that he had really cute dimples.
- Snowflakes in glassine envelopes are pretty cute.
- The contribution of these experienced taste-makers has been evident since deliveries of their cute tweed jackets and pretty camisoles first hit Gap branches last autumn.
- There is an endearing bunch of cute and funny characters.
- It's a very modern city, with very pretty people in very pretty and cute clothes walking busily around.
- And the thing about lemurs is they pretty much define cute.
- As I reached Main Street, all I could think was how cute and charming it looked.
- Romeo looked so cute with his hair sticking out from underneath his beanie.
- And I haven't had any luck attracting cute little kittens to the window.
- Summer and Marissa looking gorgeous in a pretty skirt and very cute dress both by Burning Torch.
- He smiled down at me, two very cute dimples appearing on his cheeks.
- Her sweet voice and cute, large eyes attracted most people.
- Attractive subjects are cute animals, pretty women, nice landscapes, interesting portraits.
- Expect a shrine to him some day in the future on my fotopage, he's a pretty cute kid.
- Of course, holding my beer and smudged in black grease, I had to pass some snide comment over the irony, and got a pretty cute smile for my efforts.
Synonyms endearing, adorable, lovable, sweet, lovely, appealing, engaging, delightful, dear, darling, winning, winsome, charming, enchanting - 1.1North American informal Sexually attractive.
Example sentencesExamples - Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute.
- He was pretty cute too, in a dumb blond surfer way.
- I don't understand it either, but she always looks so funny and cute at the same time.
- But he would look so much cuter without the dark sunglasses that hide too much of his face.
- They approach the cute, pretty women on the streets to offer them to join the company to earn fast money.
- The spaceships had cool design and the girl was pretty cute.
- Three pretty girls, one hidden behind too much make up, four pretty cute guys.
- I wasn't stupid, I knew they were pretty cute looking guys.
- She was cute with light brown hair falling to her shoulders and pale eyes.
- So I sat there next to two very cute naked French girls scanning the horizon.
- Also - dig his cute lil baby face and sexy Big Man's Voice.
- ‘I thought she was cute and pretty but a little frantic,’ Perkins recalled.
- The person behind the counter had changed, to a really cute boy.
- In addition to that, he's funny, cute, pretty sweet, and has a killer body.
- She put her arm around one of our players, Aaron Beattie, and says ‘This guy's pretty cute!’
- And the rhythm guitarist and the bass player were pretty cute.
- She says that she practices for hours a day not to look cute or pretty, but to become a good DJ.
- I think I just fell in love with you for being so damn cute.
- When I got off the ride, a really cute boy started to take my seat.
- This sophisticated giant oozes sex appeal as well as being cute and pretty, perfect for a woman like me.
2North American informal Clever or cunning, especially in a self-seeking or superficial way. I don't want to be cute with you Example sentencesExamples - But beyond anything except the most superficial level, this particular stereotype is cute, but silly.
- Bee Season's depiction of Flora's magical ability to spell almost any word straddles the line between being clever and too cute.
- It's a cute idea that invariably entrances young children, hence the longevity of this work through the ages.
- Most people think they can open up a nightclub because all you need is alcohol, music, some staff, and a cute idea.
- If you can get past McPhee's overly cute wordplay, you'll find this an extremely helpful resource in interpreting your dreams.
- Some of the sketches depict the cute mental mnemonics that Penrose employs to keep ideas clearly in his mind.
- Sam took a deep breath and picked up the newspaper, forcing back the idea to throw it at something cute and fluffy.
- There are some cute ideas here - like glasses that keep things cold for a long time.
- Without The Beatles, the odds are that Paul McCartney would have been just another good writer of cute, catchy and clever pop songs.
- But, you know, my mom and my dad told me about this show, and I just thought it was such a cute idea.
- A cute idea is to spell out your friends name in glitter, and randomly spread rhinestones around it.
- It's got its own differences and twists here and there and it's actually a pretty cute story.
- Kris and I just finished watching Mean Girls, which I thought was a pretty cute movie.
- It's pretty cute, you mark where you come from on the map, with a little person-icon you choose.
- I have been trying to think of how I want to decorate my blog come holiday time, and I have finally come up with a cute idea.
- The first time I heard about the Slow Food movement, recently arrived on our shores from its native Italy, I thought the whole idea sounded cute.
- There's a tendency to think of satire as cute and clever.
- She had to admit, the two vertical dashes and the bracket-turned-on-its-side made a pretty cute smiley face.
- I saw a very cute idea done on a mini tree that would work well for rosemary.
- And all this time I thought Helen Fielding was just being cute and clever in using the term.
- It's not with Microsoft, not with Nokia, and if it's cute and quick, it has a shot at re-establishing itself as a leader.
- A cute idea if properly handled - but Hensher can never work out quite what he wants to do with it.
- He gives in to temptation in other places too… gets a little too cute, wants to look a little too clever.
- This is kind of a cute idea, a theatrical tribute to the movies.
- Once Slatkin stepped a bit on the pedal, it worked out very nicely and the trumpet call from the wings was at least a cute idea.
- Nice to see how objectivity flies out of the window when people see a cute idea.
- For that moment, her coquettish cleverness and quick, cute remarks melted away.
- That's a cute idea, too: like most of the film, it looks better on paper.
Synonyms shrewd, astute, sharp, acute, quick, sharp-witted, quick-witted
Origin Early 18th century (in the sense ‘clever, shrewd’): shortening of acute. |