cute

Significado (English)

1. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
2. Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
3. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
4. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
5. Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
6. Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).

Synonyms

pretty

lovely

charming

adorable

sweet

darling

precious

nice

attractive

cunning

beautiful

clever

endearing

graceful

pleasing

sharp

ingenious

smart

good-looking

dinky

winsome

kewl

dear

comely

lovable

beloved

handsome

shrewd

gorgeous

gratifying

handy

hardheaded

hard-nosed

importunate

intelligent

keen-witted

knowing

lightsome

likable

nimble

parlous

pinta

pinto

pitiful

playful

politic

poor

prudent

sharp-witted

small

soma

spiffy

streetwise

pawky

Soma

astucious

acute

alert

alluring

awake

brainy

cagey

cagy

canny

cherished

cleaver

clinging

coax

compact

coy

dainty

delicate

disarming

engaging

entertaining

exquisite

fair

fine

friendly

fun

funny

😄

gentle

good looking

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kjuːt/

Etimologia (English)

Aphetic form of acute, originally “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.