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cute
[ kyoot ]
adjective
- attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty:
a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- appealing and delightful; charming:
What a cute toy!
- affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious:
The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.
- mentally keen; clever; shrewd.
noun
- the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.
cute
/ ː /
adjective
- appealing or attractive, esp in a pretty way
- informal.sexually attractive
- informal.affecting cleverness or prettiness
- clever; shrewd
Derived Forms
- ˈܳٱԱ, noun
- ˈܳٱ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ܳٱ· adverb
- ܳٱ·Ա noun
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cute1
Idioms and Phrases
- meet cute, Informal.
- (of a romantic couple) to meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way:
In this type of movie the boy and girl always meet cute.
- Also meet-cute. a situation or occasion when potential romantic partners meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way:
a classic Hollywood meet cute; his meet-cute with Jane in the bookstore.
Example Sentences
"It is quite overdesigned as Edwardian toilets were, and I always thought, what a cute building," she said.
The little penguin becomes a kind of mascot, a very cute creature for them to rally around and a therapist of sorts.
Then, as now, they're an exceptionally cute couple – tender and funny and clearly besotted with one another.
"Snow White the movie has its charms, and dozens of cute CGI forest animals, but on the whole it is a painfully muddle-headed affair," he says.
It’s this cute little spot, and there’s usually a line, especially on Sundays.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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