cute

CEFRA1

/kjuːt/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Attractive and pleasant, often in a small or playful way.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.

Examples

  • Look at the cute little baby sleeping in the cradle.

  • This baby penguin is too cute!

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.

  2. 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.

  3. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.

More examples

In context

  • You're such a cute boy.

  • Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.

  • Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

Aphetic form of acute, originally meaning “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.