cute
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
— Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
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Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
— Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
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Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
— He's got such cute buns.
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Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
— The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
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Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
— Then Turpin being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
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Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
— There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
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衍生词
cute aggression
cute as a bug in a rug
cute as a bug's ear
cute as a button
cute as a pin
cute as a speckled pup
cute as corn
cute-'em-up
cuteful
cute girls doing cute things
cute hoor
cuteish
cutely
cute meet
cuten
cuteness
cutensil
cutesome
cutester
cutesy
cutey
cutie
cutification
cutify
meet cute
noncute
overcute
supercute
uncute
词源
Aphetic form of acute, originally meaning “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.
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