beauteous
/ˈbjuːtɪəs
/adjective literary
Beautiful: his beauteous bride...
- With the doc are his beauteous, pretty-in-pink daughter, Miranda, and a roller-skating, ever-logical robot, Ariel.
- This beauteous, beguiling album has sat on the subs' bench awaiting a review call-up since early February, and how remiss it was to fail to alert you to the spring in its step until now.
- But on the descent it's beauteous, because you can slide down it like a skier.
Origin
Late Middle English: from beauty, on the pattern of bounteous and plenteous.