different between beautiful vs grody

English

Etymology

From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty +? -ful. Largely displaced Old English fæ?er (whence fair).

Pronunciation

• enPR: byo?o?t?-f?l, IPA^(key): /?bju?t?f?l/
• Hyphenation: beau?ti?ful

Adjective

beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)

1. Attractive and possessing beauty.

2. Good, admirable.

3. (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.

4. Well executed.

Usage notes

• When used to refer to human appearance, the word is more commonly used for women, with handsome being more common for men, though neither is incorrect. For a man, beautiful could connote a more delicate or androgynous appearance.
• The comparatives beautifuler and beautifuller, and the superlatives beautifulest and beautifullest have also occasionally been used, but are nonstandard.

Synonyms

• (possessing charm and attractive): beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang)
• (of the weather): clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny
• (well executed): excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful
• (ironic: how unfortunate): great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)
• See also Thesaurus:beautiful

Antonyms

• (possessing charm and attractive): grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful
• (of the weather): bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet
• (well executed): average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak

Derived terms

Related terms

• beauty
  • See also Thesaurus:beautiful woman

Translations

Noun

beautiful (plural beautifuls)

1. Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.

English

Alternative forms

• groady

Etymology

From groady, from groaty (intervocalic /t/ and /d/ are similar in American English), clipping of grotesque +? -y. Compare British grotty, of same origin, and American gross, gro.

Popularized by Moon Unit Zappa in song “Valley Girl” (1982) in phrase “grody to the max”, as archetypal Southern California Valleyspeak; song also popularized “gag me with a spoon”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???o?di/
• Rhymes: -??di

Adjective

grody (comparative grodier, superlative grodiest)

1. (US, informal) nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.

   I wouldn't set foot in that bar; the floor looks grody.

   • 1982, Frank Zappa, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, “Valley Girl” (1982), Moon Unit Zappa speaking:

     And the lady, like, goes

     “Oh, my god, your toenails are, like, so grody”

     …

     It’s like grody

     Grody to the max

     …

     Gross!

Related terms

• groty
• grotty
• gro

References

Anagrams

• Gordy

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?d?/

Noun

grody

1. nominative/accusative plural of grod

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?.d?/

Noun

grody m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gród