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cute
[kyoot]
adjective
attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty.
a cute child; a cute little apartment.
appealing and delightful; charming.
a cute toy!
affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious.
The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.
mentally keen; clever; shrewd.
noun
Informal.the cutes, self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness.
The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.
cute
/ ː /
adjective
appealing or attractive, esp in a pretty way
informalsexually attractive
informalaffecting cleverness or prettiness
clever; shrewd
Other Word Forms
- cutely adverb
- cuteness noun
- ˈܳٱԱ noun
- ˈܳٱ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cute1
Idioms and Phrases
meet cute,
(of a romantic couple) to meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way.
In this type of movie the boy and girl always meet cute.
Also meet-cute a situation or occasion when potential romantic partners meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way.
a classic Hollywood meet cute; his meet-cute with Jane in the bookstore.
Example Sentences
Shopping: Both downtown Weaverville and Lewiston are home to cute shops selling local wares.
They are starting to play at this young age and it’s so cute.
But then sometimes I found that they were not that live or crackling because I had already thought of something cute the night before or whatever.
“I told him I would take him around,” Jones said, “because he was cute.”
They spotted a group of cute guys pitching a tent nearby.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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