Attractive, especially in a dainty way; Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls. Something or someone that is cute is very pretty or attractive, or is intended to appear pretty or attractive. He thinks it's cute to tell dirty jokes. (especially of something or someone small or young) pleasant and attractive:
(definition of cute from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press) Ugly, plain, unattractive, hideous, grotesque, homely, bad, unlovely 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; Beautiful, lovely, gorgeous, handsome, attractive, pretty, charming, stunning; Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Even After 1900 Children Were Still Being Called Cute.
Definition of cute adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. See examples of cute used in a sentence. Cuteness may be ascribed to people as well as things that are regarded as attractive or charming. 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.