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heather
English
Alternative forms
- hadder (dialectal)
- hether, hather (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *h?ddre and h?þ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h?ð?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?ð?/
- Rhymes: -?ð?(?)
- Hyphenation: heath?er
Noun
heather (countable and uncountable, plural heathers)
- (botany) An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
- (botany) The Ericaceae family.
- (botany) Various species of the genus Erica.
- (botany) Various species of the genus Cassiope.
- A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
- (textiles) The use of interwoven yarns of mixed colours to produce flecks.
Synonyms
- (Calluna vulgaris): ling
Related terms
- heath
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
- heather on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ericaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Ericaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Translations
Adjective
heather (not comparable)
- Of a purple colour with a tint with pink and blue.
Anagrams
- heareth
heather From the web:
- what heathers character am i
- what heather means
- what heather are you
- what heather character are you
- what heathers song are you
- what heather about
- what heather song is about
beautiful
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)
- Attractive and possessing beauty.
- Good, admirable.
- (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
- 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)
- Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
beautiful From the web:
- what beautiful name
- what beautiful name lyrics
- what beautiful name chords
- what beautiful eyes you have
- what beautiful means
- what beautiful in spanish
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