pulchritude
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- noun
- /ˈpʌlkrɪˌtjud/
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pulcritud
- Everyone admired her pulchritude as she walked gracefully down the street.
- feminine pulchritude
Examples
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Supreme flower of feminine pulchritude.
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Navin, do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to a man like me?
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I never knew Gertrude's boy had such an eye for feminine pulchritude.
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Thirty-six and a half inches of feminine pulchritude!
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Men are so wired for pulchritude that we can't easily understand how women can be attracted to something not superficially beautiful.
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The sexy young blonde standing in front of him was all his secret fantasies wrapped up into one bodacious bundle of feminine pulchritude.
Fiction book (1998) -
At one point, the heroine, Modesty, and her sister, Pulchritude, entered with velvet cats' tails peeking beneath their skirts.
Fiction book (1993) -
The painter dedicated his latest work to the pulchritude of his muse, capturing her beauty on canvas.
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Her pulchritude was widely celebrated, making her the star of many fashion magazines.
Synonyms
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The quality that makes people notice and like someone's looks or character
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A state of being very beautiful or attractive
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How beautiful something looks
Antonyms
How Beautiful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
pulchritude = pulchri + tude
Although analyzable as Latin pulchri- + -tude, the root form is not a recognisable English base and the meaning is not derivable by an average B1 learner from its parts.
Etymology
Pulchritude comes from the old Latin word pulcher, which means 'beautiful', plus the ending -tude meaning 'state' or 'quality'. So, pulchritude simply means the 'quality of being beautiful', a formal way to say 'beauty'.