(definition of cute from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press) Beautiful, lovely, gorgeous, handsome, attractive, pretty, charming, stunning; He thinks it's cute to tell dirty jokes. Cuteness may be ascribed to people as well as things that are regarded as attractive or charming. Attractive, especially in a dainty way;
Definition of cute adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls. The contraction cute first appears in the early 18th century, but only a century later does it begin to take on its distinctive modern meaning; Ugly, plain, unattractive, hideous, grotesque, homely, bad, unlovely Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Even After 1900 Children Were Still Being Called Cute.
Cute was originally a shortened form of acute in the sense keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd. in this sense cute is first recorded in a dictionary published in 1731. (especially of something or someone small or young) pleasant and attractive: Something or someone that is cute is very pretty or attractive, or is intended to appear pretty or attractive. See examples of cute used in a sentence.