Cute

Definition: Cute

Cute

Adjective

1. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby".

2. Obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CUTE

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Synonyms: Cute

Skill

Clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive; shrewd, sharp, on the ball; (intelligent); cunning; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.

Taste

Adjective: in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic.

Crosswords: Cute

Italian (cutis, skin), Romanian (whetstone).

Tell your friend not to get cute down there (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin. Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin.)

Gosh you're cute. Wanna buy a monkey (Cabin Boy; writing credit: Adam Resnick)

You know how cute I always thought you were (Fast Times at Ridgemont High; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Cute, isn't it (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

It went straight for the warhead, and they think it's cute! (The Abyss; writing credit: James Cameron.)

Damn, you cute as hell so let's switch the digits (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

Cuz I wouldn't give you boots, and you thought I was cute (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

I like a, little ooh baby, how cute are you (Livin' It Up; performing artist: Ja Rule)

You've got a cute way of talking (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing; performing artist: LEO SAYER)

You were cute and all that (Don't Say You Love Me; performing artist: M2M)

Comet cuddles cute Christmas kittens carefully. (references; author: unknown)

The Cute Recruit (1941)

Just a Cute Kid (1940)

The Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy (2002)

Kinda Cute for a White Boy... (1996)

Too Cute for Words (1992)

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Books

• But She's So Cute (The Girls of Canby Hall, No 23) (reference)

• Cute As a Bug Iron-On Transfers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cute & Cuddly (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cute But Deadly: The Big Sound Of Now, Vol. 3 (reference)

• I Am the Cute One (reference)

• Too Cute! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Take-Out Baby Bibs - Cute As A... (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Ahhhh! What a cute baby! Weddell seal pup. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Who wants to buy this cute playhouse?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

The Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is a deceptively cute animal, with big eyes and big ears. Its head and body are normally about 2 - 3 inches long, and the tail adds another 2 - 3 inches in length. (references)

Business

Because casual fashion is very popular among parents, children's fashion has become more casual than ever. Also, very sweet, cute and charming designs with light pastel colors, which seem to adults very "childlike", are also popular. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "cute": cute-as-a-button, cute-looking.

Ending with "cute": hollywood-cute, meeting-cute.

Albanian

tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), mendjemprehtë (acute, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, witty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), ‏قشيب (burnished, clean, polished), ‏ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съобразителен (acute, clearheaded, flexible, peart, resourceful, tricky, wide awake), умен (brainy, bright, clever, intelligent, nifty, politic, sage, shrewd, smart, wise), сладък (dulcet, euphonious, fresh, honey, mellow, sweet, yummy), симпатичен (amiable, nice, nice-looking, prepossessing, regular, sympathetic), хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), мил (agreeable, amiable, benign, comfortable, darling, dear, engaging, genial, good, kind, likable, likeable, lovable, mil, nice, sweet), превзет (affected, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Chinese 

逗人喜爱, 睆 (good-looking), 可愛 (amiable, lovely). (various references)

Czech

roztomilý (amiable, appealing, charming, darling, lovable, lovely, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, sweet), hezouèký (dinky), šikovný (astute, cunning, deft, dexterous, handy, ingenious, natty, nifty, skilled). (various references)

Farsi 

زیبا (Beauteous, Beautiful, Chic, Dinky, Handsome, Picturesque, Pulchritudinous, Scrumptious, Spiffy, Stylish, Yummy), جذاب (Dashing, Lovable, Personable, Slick), دلفریب (Lovely). (various references)

Finnish

veikeä (mischievous), soma (dainty, neat, nice, pretty, sweet), sievä (attractive, handsome, pretty), söpö, pikantti (piquant), kiva (funny, jolly good, jolly nice, ripping). (various references)

French

mignon, malin (cunning), futé, attirant. (various references)

German

niedlich (appealing, dinky, ducky, lovely, pretty, sweet, twee), goldig (angelic, sweet). (various references)

Greek 

έξυπνοσ (alert, awake, brainy, cagey, cagy, canny, clever, hard-headed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, parlous, politic, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, spiffy), πανέξυπνος (shrewd, very clever), χαριτωμένοσ (comely, darling, dinky, graceful, lightsome, pretty), ατσίδασ, τρισχαριτωμένοσ, τετραπέρατος (astute, shrewd, wily). (various references)

Hebrew 

חמוד (dainty, delightful, lovable, lovely, pretty, sweet), נחמד (adorable, charming, dainty, delightful, desirable, lovely, mellow, nice, pleasant, pretty). (various references)

Hungarian

ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily), csinos (bonnie, bonny, compt, crackajack, crackerjack, crummy, cunning, dolly, easy on the eye, easy to look at, foxy, good looking, handsome, have good looks, natty, neat, nice-looking, nifty, personable, pretty, proper, seemly, she's got it, sightly, Spruce, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig). (various references)

Indonesian

tangkas (agile, dapper, deft, dexterous, prompt), mungil, manis (adorable, dulcet, engageing, kind, sweet). (various references)

Italian

carino (affable, beautiful, decent, dinky, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, poppet, pretty, sweet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

眩い (pretty), 愛くるしい (lovely), キャンプ村 (campaign, campaign sale, campsite, Canberra, Canon, Cuba, Cuban heel, cubic, cubic type, cubism, cue, culotte, culotte skirt, Cupid, curacao, curator, cure, curie, curiosity, curium, cuticle, cuticle cream, cuticle remover, cutie, killer, killer dust, kiosk, queue), 可憐 (lovely, pitiful, poor, sweet), 可愛い (charming, darling, dear, lovely, pet, pretty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まぶい (pretty), かれん (lovely, oppression, pitiful, poor, sweet), かわいい (charming, darling, dear, lovely, pet, pretty), かわゆい (charming, darling, dear, lovely, pet, pretty), キュート , あいくるしい (lovely). (various references)

Korean 

귀여운. (various references)

Pig Latin

utecay.(various references)

Portuguese

sestroso, perspicaz (acute, apprehensive, argute, astucious, astute, canny, clear, clearheaded, clear-sighted, discerning, far-seeing, far-sighted, keen, longheaded, long-sighted, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, quick-eyed, sagacious, sharp, shrewd), fofo (cottony, fluffy, light, puff, soft, swelling), esperto (agile, astute, bobbish, brainy, bright, clever, informed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, live, politic, salted, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, sprightly, stirring, tricksy, watchful, wide-awake), bonitinho, atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Romanian

viclean (arch, artful, astute, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), procopsit (enriched, skilful, skillful, well informed, well off), isteţ (adroit, clever, cunning, fast, forward, mercurial, natty, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-sighted, smart, spirited), iscusit (able, adroit, apt, argute, clean, clever, daedal, deft, ingenious, learned, ready, sharp-sighted, skilful, skilled, skillful, workmanlike), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), ingenios (clever, cleverly, daedal, ingenious, inventive, patent, sagacious, skilful, skillful), drãguţ (attractive, beloved, charming, comely, dainty, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, sweet, sweetheart), deştept (able, active, awake, brainy, bright, canny, clever man, cunning, intelligent, patent, wise man), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, fast, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding). (various references)

Russian 

умный (able-minded, brainy, clever, intelligent, knowledgeable, sagacious, sharp-witted, smart, strong-minded, witted), остроумный (brainy, facetious, ingenious, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, snip-snap, witty), находчивый (adroit, gumptious, quickwitted, quick-witted, ready-witted, resourceful, shifty, tricky), милый (cunning, darling, dear, good, honey, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sladak (delectable, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, sleek, sweet), ljubak (charming, ducky, graceful). (various references)

Spanish

mono (ape, boiler suit, Dandy, dinky, dungarees, lovely, mimic, monkey, nice, nice-looking, overall, overalls, rompers), listo (able, all set, apt, brainy, clever, finished, fit, nimble, nippy, poised, prepared, quick-witted, ready, ripe, set, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, tap, through), lindo (beautiful, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, hairdo, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, what, whatever). (various references)

Swedish

söt (beloved, bonny, darling, dear, expensive, gentle, lovely, pretty, soft, sweet, tender, valuable). (various references)

Turkish

cici (dinky, popsy, popsy-wopsy, pretty), zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), sevimli (amiable, appealing, bonny, charming, cuddlesome, cuddly, cunning, delectable, fair, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, prettily, pretty, sapid, sympathetic, winning, winsome), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), şirin (cunning, debonair, debonaire, fair, lovely, pleasant, sonsy, winsome), akıllı (all there, astute, brainy, clever, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, smart, sparkling, spiritual, understanding, well advised, wise). (various references)

Ukrainian

тямущий (adept, alert, capable, comprehensive, dexterous, docile, intelligenced, smart, well-seen, wise), кмітливий (acute, alert, apprehensive, clever, dexterous, grasping, intelligent, nimble, nimble-witted, quick, ready-witted, sagacious), проникливий (acute, astute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, penetrative, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd), дотепний (attic, brainy, dodgy, facetious, ingenious, jocular, nimble, nimble-witted, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, spiritual, waggish, witty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xinh xắn (dinky, prettily, pretty, well-favoured, well-looking), sắc sảo (astute, salt), lanh lợi (agile, clever, sharp-witted, subtle), đáng yêu (amiable, cunning, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking). (various references)

Welsh

ciwt (clever, ingenious). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cute": cutely, cuteness, cutenesses, cuter, cutes, cutesie, cutesier, cutesiest, cutest, cutesy, cutey, cuteys. (additional references)

Words ending with "cute": acute, electrocute, execute, hyperacute, persecute, prosecute, scute, subacute, supercute, uncute. (additional references)

Words containing "cute": acutely, acuteness, acutenesses, acuter, acutes, acutest, charcuterie, charcuteries, electrocuted, electrocutes, executed, executer, executers, executes, persecuted, persecutee, persecutees, persecutes, prosecuted, prosecutes, scutella, scutellar, scutellate, scutellated, scutellum, scutes, subacutely, subcutes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catay, categ, catex, catte, cauti, Cawte, cbto, Cctu, cdtce, ceti, cetie, cette, Ceuto, cita, citee, citew, citu, Cmte, Cmtte, coet, coite, cotex, coti, cotte, cottea, Cottey, coute, couti, Cowte, Cpti, Crute, Cte, cti, ctp, Ctta, Ctte, Cttee, Cueta, cufe, cuft, cuge, cuite, cujt, Culte, cume, cune, cuntie, cupe, curto, cuta, cutay, cuted, cutee, cuten, cuteo, cutex, cutey, Cuth, cuti, cutn, cutr, cutre, Cutsem, Cutt, cutta, cutted, cutv, cuty, cuve, cuze, cyte, Czudek, kote, sute, ucat, Ucet, Uchte. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cue, cut, ecu.

-2 letters: et, ut.

+1 letter: acute, centu, chute, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, cutes, cutey, cutie, educt, eruct, recut, scute, teuch, truce.

+2 letters: acetum, acuate, acuter, acutes, bucket, centum, cestus, chuted, chutes, coquet, coteau, couter, cruets, cruset, cuesta, culets, cullet, curate, curets, curite, curter, curvet, cutely, cutest, cutesy, cuteys, cuties, cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, deduct, ducted, dulcet, educts, eructs, faucet, lucent, luetic, precut, rectum, rectus, recuts, reluct, scutes, teacup, tectum, touche, truced, truces, tucked, tucker, tucket, tusche, uncute, uretic.