Words for Beauty

Find inspiration and words to describe beauty, with phrases that apply to both to people and places.

  1. adorable
  2. aesthetic
  3. aesthetically pleasing
  4. aglow
  5. alluring
  6. angelic
  7. appealing
  8. artful
  9. attractive
  10. awe-inspiring
  11. beauteous
  12. beautiful
  13. becoming
  14. belle
  15. bewitching
  16. breathtaking
  17. brilliant
  18. captivating
  19. celebrated
  20. celestial
  21. classic
  22. consummate
  23. contoured
  24. coveted
  25. cute
  26. darling
  27. dazzling
  28. decorative
  29. delicate
  30. desirable
  1. harmonious
  2. head-turning
  3. heavenly
  4. hot
  5. hypnotic
  6. ideal
  7. impeccable
  8. inspirational
  9. inspiring
  10. intoxicating
  11. lovely
  12. luminous
  13. luscious
  14. magnificent
  15. majestic
  16. mesmerizing
  17. musical
  18. mystical
  19. one-of-a-kind
  20. peaceful
  21. perfect
  22. perfectly formed
  23. photogenic
  24. picturesque
  25. pleasing
  26. poetic
  27. prepossessing
  28. pretty
  29. pure
  30. radiant
  1. divine
  2. doll-like
  3. dreamy
  4. drop-dead gorgeous
  5. easy on the eyes
  6. elegant
  7. elevated
  8. enticing
  9. entrancing
  10. enviable
  11. errorless
  12. ethereal
  13. exemplary
  14. exotic
  15. exquisite
  16. fair
  17. fashionable
  18. feminine
  19. fetching
  20. fine
  21. fine-looking
  22. flawless
  23. foxy
  24. fragile
  25. free
  26. glamorous
  27. good-looking
  28. gorgeous
  29. graceful
  30. grand
  1. ravishing
  2. red hot
  3. refined
  4. resplendent
  5. sculptured
  6. sensuous
  7. sexy
  8. sightly
  9. sophisticated
  10. sparkling
  11. special
  12. splendorous
  13. statuesque
  14. streamlined
  15. striking
  16. stunning
  17. stylish
  18. sublime
  19. superb
  20. symmetrical
  21. taking
  22. tasteful
  23. timeless
  24. transcendent
  25. unforgettable
  26. unusual
  27. vibrant
  28. wanted
  29. well-formed
  30. winning
  1. a perfect 10
  2. a vision
  3. admirer
  4. allure
  5. amazement
  6. angel
  7. appeal
  8. appreciation
  9. art
  10. artistry
  11. artwork
  12. awe
  13. beautiful creature
  14. beauty
  15. charm
  16. charmer
  17. composition
  18. cutie pie
  1. infatuation
  2. inner beauty
  3. jewel
  4. knockout
  5. longing
  6. look
  7. looker
  8. loveliness
  9. marvel
  10. miracle
  11. natural beauty
  12. object of desire
  13. objet d'art
  14. perfection
  15. purity
  16. rarity
  17. reverence
  18. sculpture
  1. dish
  2. doll
  3. dream
  4. dream girl
  5. dream guy
  6. dreamboat
  7. elegance
  8. enchanter
  9. exotic beauty
  10. eye candy
  11. eyeful
  12. feast for the eyes
  13. femininity
  14. fox
  15. glorification
  16. good looks
  17. good-looking person
  18. grace
  1. sex appeal
  2. sex symbol
  3. sight
  4. sophistication
  5. stunner
  6. stupor
  7. treasure
  8. uncontested beauty
  9. universal beauty
  10. visual feast
  11. visual poetry
  12. visual treat
  13. wonder
  14. wonderment
  15. work of art
  16. worshiper
  17. wow factor
  1. admire
  2. adore
  3. appeal to
  4. appreciate
  5. astonish
  6. attract
  7. be awestruck
  8. be blown away by
  9. be drawn to
  10. be in awe of
  11. be mad for
  12. be smitten
  13. be taken with
  14. be turned on by
  15. become infatuated
  16. beguile
  17. behold
  18. bewitch
  19. blossom
  20. breath in
  21. captivate
  22. catch sight of
  23. charm
  24. cherish
  25. coax
  26. compare
  27. contemplate
  28. covet
  29. crave
  1. hook
  2. hunger for
  3. hypnotize
  4. idealize
  5. idolize
  6. infatuate
  7. intrigue
  8. knock dead
  9. know
  10. look
  11. look fine
  12. look one's best
  13. love
  14. lure
  15. lust
  16. lust after
  17. luxuriate
  18. mesmerize
  19. not believe one's eyes
  20. observe
  21. ogle
  22. persuade
  23. pine
  24. please
  25. please the eye
  26. pleasure
  27. pour over
  28. praise
  29. prize
  1. dazzle
  2. delight in
  3. derive pleasure
  4. desire
  5. draw
  6. dream of
  7. drink in
  8. enchant
  9. enhance
  10. enthrall
  11. entrance
  12. entrap
  13. esteem
  14. exalt
  15. experience
  16. extol
  17. eye
  18. fall for
  19. fancy
  20. fantasize
  21. fascinate
  22. flatter
  23. gawk
  24. gaze
  25. glance
  26. glorify
  27. glow
  28. go ga ga for
  29. grab
  1. recall
  2. regard
  3. rejoice
  4. relish
  5. revere
  6. rub one's eyes
  7. savor
  8. seduce
  9. see
  10. set ships a sail
  11. stare
  12. strike
  13. study
  14. suck in
  15. sweep off one's feet
  16. swoon over
  17. take by surprise
  18. take in
  19. tempt
  20. treasure
  21. turn heads
  22. value
  23. venerate
  24. view
  25. want
  26. witness
  27. worship
  28. wow
  29. yearn for
  1. A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. -Aldai Stevenson
  2. A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing. -John Stuart Blackie
  3. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -John Keats
  4. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. -George Meredith
  5. A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. -Anne Roiphe
  6. A women's greatest asset is her beauty. -Alex Comfort
  7. Beauty and folly are old companions. -Benjamin Franklin
  8. Beauty awakens the soul to act. -Dante Alighieri
  9. Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. -Munshi Premchand
  10. Beauty has a lot to do with character. -Kevyn Aucoin
  11. Beauty in a modest woman is like a distant fire or a sharp-edged sword: the one does not burn, the other does not cut, those who do not come near it. -Miguel de Cervantes
  12. Beauty in a woman’s face, like sweetness in a woman’s lips, is a matter of taste. -M. W. Little
  13. Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. -David Hume
  14. Beauty is a fragile gift. -Ovid
  15. Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? -George Bernard Shaw
  1. Beauty is whatever gives joy. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  2. Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. -Aldous Huxley
  3. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. -Francis Bacon
  4. Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. -Matthew Fox
  5. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  6. Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem. -Anon
  7. Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem. -Unknown
  8. Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance. -German and Danish proverbs
  9. Beauty, like a lantern’s light, will shine outward from within him. -George Garrett
  10. Beauty, like supreme dominion, is best supported by opinion. -Jonathan Swift
  11. Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us. -George Bancroft
  12. Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown. -Lord Lyttleton
  13. Beauty...extraordinary, as if it were painted. -Anita Brookner
  14. Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. -Ambrose Bierce
  15. Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more. -Eva Herzigova
  16. Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. -Victor Hugo
  1. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and that cannot last. -Francis Bacon
  2. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. -Khalil Gibran
  3. Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. -H. G. Wells
  5. Beauty is less important than quality. -Eugene Ormandy
  6. Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year, it is well. -Thomas Adam
  7. Beauty is like summer fruits which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. -Francis Bacon
  8. Beauty is not caused. It is. -Emily Dickinson
  9. Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. -Alicia Machado
  10. Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. -Camille Paglia
  11. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. -John Ray
  12. Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. -Fay Weldon
  13. Beauty is the promise of happiness. -Edmund Burke
  14. Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. -Charles Baudelaire
  15. Beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the beauty of the soul. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  16. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -Albert Camus
  1. Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. -Charles Baudelaire
  2. Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. -Richard Cecil
  3. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius
  4. Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  5. For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  6. He was...all beauty, as the sun is all light. -Phyllis Bottome
  7. How goodness heightens beauty! -Milan Kundera
  8. Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness. -Milton R. Sapirstein
  9. She walks in beauty like the night. -Lord Byron
  10. She was as...beautiful as the devil, and twice as dangerous. -Dashiell Hammett
  11. The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. -George Eliot
  12. When a guy tells you that you're hot; he is looking at your body. When a guy tells you that you're pretty; he is looking at your face. When a guy tells you that you're beautiful; he is looking at your heart. -Unknown
  13. Women’s beauty, like men’s wit, is generally fatal to the owners. -Lord Chesterfield
  14. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. -Unknown
  1. as beautiful and dangerous as a shower of broken glass
  2. as beautiful and refreshing as the glimmering sea
  3. as beautiful as a fine violin
  4. as beautiful as a moonbeam
  5. as flawless and polished as a diamond
  6. as pretty and bright as a new dime
  7. as pretty and thin as a feather on the wind
  8. as pretty and welcoming as a summer breeze
  9. beautiful and bright as the full moon
  10. beautiful and unique as snowflake
  11. beautiful as a country meadow
  12. beautiful as a dream
  13. beautiful as a goddess
  1. beautiful as youth
  2. beautiful like a cloudless night
  3. beautiful like a piece of fine art
  4. beautiful like a statue
  5. beautiful like a tightened bow
  6. beauty as rare as a blue rose
  7. beauty as rare as a precious coin
  8. beauty like a perfume
  9. beauty like a sculpture in motion
  10. beauty like sunshine on a cloudy day
  11. beauty that maddened the soul like wine
  12. beauty that passes like a breath
  13. beauty that shines like a beacon
  1. beautiful as a porcelain doll come to life
  2. beautiful as a saint
  3. beautiful as a wedding cake
  4. beautiful as a woman's blush
  5. beautiful as a young bride
  6. beautiful as an illusion
  7. beautiful as April rains
  8. beautiful as spring's first rose
  9. beautiful as the day
  10. beautiful as the dream of youth
  11. beautiful as the evening moon
  12. beautiful as the first flush of dawn
  13. beautiful as the sun going into the sea
  1. beauty was like a light in a dark house
  2. fair as a lily
  3. fair as a star
  4. fair as any rose
  5. fair as marble
  6. fair is she as dreams of poets
  7. gorgeous as the hues of heaven
  8. graceful as a bough
  9. lovely as starry water
  10. pretty as a wax doll
  11. pure as a white dove
  12. pure as prayer
  13. pure as the naked heavens