Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

[Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics†. [-beauty of people] pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry &c 242; comeliness, fairness &c adj.; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure†; trigness†; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification†. concinnity†, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], style. Venus, Aphrodite†, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo†, Hyperion, Adonis†, Antionous†, Narcissus. peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c (ornament) 847; work of art. flower, flow'ret gay†; [flowers: list] wildflower; rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower. pleasurableness &c 829. beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration &c 847; calisthenics†. [person who is beautiful] beauty; hunk (of men). V. be beautiful &c adj.; shine, beam, bloom; become one &c (accord) 23; set off, grace. render beautiful &c adj.; beautify; polish, burnish; gild &c (decorate) 847; set out. snatch a grace beyond the reach of art [Pope]. Adj. beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive &c (inviting) 615; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scot.]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical &c (regular) 242; harmonious &c (color) 428; sightly. fit to be seen, passable, not amiss. goodly, dapper, tight, jimp†; gimp; janty†, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy†. bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom. brilliant, shining; beamy†, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek. rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious. artistic, artistical†; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre [Fr.]; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious. enchanting &c (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming &c (accordant) 23; ornamental &c 847. undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless &c (perfect) 650. Phr. auxilium non leve vultus habet [Lat.] [Ovid]; beauty born of murmuring sound [Wordsworth]; flowers preach to us if we will hear [C.G. Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat.] [Vergil]; none but the brave deserve the fair [Dryden]; thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty [Byron].