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cute

About 2.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective 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.
    Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
  2. adjective Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
    Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
  3. adjective Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
    He's got such cute buns.
  4. adjective Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
    The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
  5. adjective Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
    Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
  6. adjective Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
    There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.

Similar words

attractive precious artful cunning cutie adorable lovable sweetheart darling sweetie

Often followed by

little and as in or when to guy but

Word family

cuit cutely cuteness cutenesses cuter cutes cutest

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