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cute

[ kyoot ]

adjective

cuter, cutest.
  1. attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty:

    a cute child; a cute little apartment.

  2. appealing and delightful; charming:

    What a cute toy!

  3. affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious:

    The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.

  4. mentally keen; clever; shrewd.


noun

  1. the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:

    The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.

cute

/ ː /

adjective

  1. appealing or attractive, esp in a pretty way
  2. informal.
    sexually attractive
  3. informal.
    affecting cleverness or prettiness
  4. clever; shrewd
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳٱԱ, noun
  • ˈܳٱ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cute1

First recorded in 1615–25; aphetic variant of acute
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cute1

C18 (in the sense: clever): shortened from acute
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. meet cute, Informal.
    1. (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.

    2. 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.

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"It is quite overdesigned as Edwardian toilets were, and I always thought, what a cute building," she said.

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The little penguin becomes a kind of mascot, a very cute creature for them to rally around and a therapist of sorts.

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Then, as now, they're an exceptionally cute couple – tender and funny and clearly besotted with one another.

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"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.

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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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