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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cute
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ I wouldn't have thought of Emil as cute.
▪ He is as cute as a puppy.
▪ They are as cute as buttons.
how
▪ On this day poems on origami squares are hung from bamboo branches. How cute!
so
▪ In that crushable taffeta ballet dress she has no right to look so cute.
▪ Really, they are so cute.
▪ He was like a child, so cute, so handsome and thin.
very
▪ At three or four weeks, rabbits really are very cute.
▪ You are very cute, but you can not get by in this world by looking endearingly at people.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cute little kittens
▪ a cute, chubby baby
▪ Do you like Jill Anderson? I think she's cute!
▪ Doesn't he look cute in that baseball cap!
▪ He's really naughty, but he's so cute.
▪ Heidi is the cutest girl in my class.
▪ I don't know why she won't go out with him. I think he's kind of cute.
▪ Julia Roberts is really cute in her new movie.
▪ Oh, aren't those shoes cute?
▪ Pam always draws those cute little circles over her "i's."
▪ You were such a cute baby!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And no, the latter has nothing to do with hordes of rude guys in cute matching coifs.
▪ She looked pretty as anything with her yellow hair and her cute little face.
▪ There were any number of nameless partners, telling her she was a cute chick, trying to fondle her.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cute

Cute \Cute\ (k[=u]t), a. [An abbrev. of acute.]

  1. Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]

  2. pleasantly attractive, in a delicate way; -- said of children, young ladies, pet animals and some objects, but seldom of adults; as, a cute child; a cute kitten; a cute little house; a cute statue.

  3. smart-alecky or impertinent; as, a cute remark.

  4. affectedly clever.
    --RHUD

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cute

1731, "clever," shortening of acute; informal sense of "pretty" is 1834, American English student slang. Related: Cuteness.

Wiktionary
cute

a. 1 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. 2 Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. 3 affected or contrived to charm; mince#Verb clever; precious; cutesy. 4 Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (term: acute).

WordNet
cute
  1. adj. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning]

  2. obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: precious]

  3. [also: cuter]

Wikipedia
Cute (Maltese band)

Cute is a teenage girl band from Malta consisting of Salaia Gerada, Trisha Smith, Paulanne Farrugia, Celaine Borg, and Marzia Farrugia. The group participated for Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, in Rotterdam, Netherlands with their song Music. They performed fourteenth in the contest, preceding Greece, and succeeding Sweden. They finished in 12th place scoring 37 points overall.

While in Rotterdam, the band sometimes wore matching outfits. They travelled to the contest with their manager Alison Ellul, sound engineer Elton Zarb and hairstylists Cut Coiffeur.

Cute (Japanese idol group)

Cute, stylized as , is a Japanese idol girl group, consisting of five members. Cute is part of Hello! Project, produced by Tsunku, who also writes almost all the group's songs.

Cute made its major debut in 2007 and that year won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist. In 2008, the group was nominated for the main Japan Record Award, the Grand Prix, its song being named one of the year's best songs. As of May 2013 , all of the group's major-label singles have debuted in the top 10 of the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.

Cute (disambiguation)

Cuteness is a form of attractiveness associated with youthful traits.

Cute may refer to: Yenoh

Cute (album)

Cute is the fourth studio album by Japanese recording artist Arisa Mizuki, released through Nippon Columbia on July 21, 1995. It is predominately a pop music album. Cute was released only seventh months after Arisa III: Look and is Mizuki's last studio album to be released under Nippon Columbia. The album produced two singles, " Anata no Sedai e Kuchizuke o", written and produced by Tetsuya Komuro, and " Dakishimete!." Both singles debuted within the top twenty, with "Anata no Sedai e Kuchizuke o" becoming Mizuki's last single to break the top ten. Despite not being released as a single, track seven, "Kagayaite Ite (10 Years After)," was used as theme song for the NHK television and radio program Minna no Uta throughout June and July 1995.

CDJournal described Cute as a "percussive summer-driven dance pop" set with "occasional slow numbers" that mesh well with Mizuki's "angelic vocals." The online magazine singled out Komuro's sole contribution to the album, "Anata no Sedai e Kuchizuke o," as the most "orthodox" track on the record. The ninth track on the album, "Pitter Patter," is written and produced by Hiroshi Matsui and Suzi Kim, who are credited under the name of their production and songwriting team Royal Mirrorball.

Cute debuted at number 21 on the Oricon Weekly Albums chart with 21,950 copies in its first week, charting three spots higher than Arisa III: Look.

Usage examples of "cute".

Edgar, came jostling after to share her knee with her scripts and suckle at her bosom while she learned her lines, yet she was always word-perfect even when she played two parts in the one night, Ophelia or Juliet and then, say, Little Pickle, the cute kid in the afterpiece, for the audiences of those days refused to leave the theatre after a tragedy unless the players changed costumes and came back to give them a little something extra to cheer them up again.

Dorraine was all in white as well: stole, cossack hat, and a muff big enough, it occurred to Alacrity in passing, to hold those cute derringers plus a few landmines for luck.

I go to your apartment, Alan, and what do I see there but a cute brown-haired girl wearing jeans.

With a cute guy I picked up at Amour Magique, a good -- no, great -- dancer.

She looked very cute, Bingo thought, in that little black dress with the white lace collar and the big black hat.

E passava e ripassava la mano sul liscio mento dove fra le macchie di cui avevanlo chiazzato la lussuria e la depravazione, si scorgeva la pallida e giallognola cute del camaleonte.

Okay, I said he was cute, but he was in no position to say he dated a lot of anything, never mind with the word gorgeous in it.

Deutch spotted that doubloon he was cute enough to guess what it might lead to, but your father was too clever for him.

She gives Sam the Gonoph an extra big smile, and right away Sam is saying she is very cute, indeed, and then she gives old Liverlips an even bigger smile, and what is more she takes old Liverlips by the arm and walks with him, and old Liverlips is not only very much astonished, but very much pleased.

Nick De Profundis, the company lounge lizard, has surprised everybody by changing, inside the phone booth of factory spaces here, to an energetic businessman, selling A4 souvenirs: small items that can be worked into keychains, money clips or a scatter-pin for that special gal back home, burner cups of brass off the combustion chambers, ball bearings from the servos, and this week the hep item seems to be SA 100 acorn diodes, cute little mixing valves looted out of the Tele-funken units, and the even rarer SA 102s, which of course fetch a higher price.

The traitor most likely intended to deceive me, but as I was myself determined to deceive him it remained to be seen which was the a cuter.

GRob is a hottie, maybe not as cute as Laura Witherspoon, but a woman who can kick ass is a definite turn-on.

They lay against the pillows of the four-poster bed, cute as a pair of Kewpie dolls.

When the view is reversed, and a couture girl bothers to glance toward her, Mirabelle looks like a puppy standing on its hind legs, and the two brown dots of her eyes, set in the china plate of her face, make her seem very cute and noticeable.

Although the myna was cute and appealing, its basically reptilian view of the world was most likely cold, strange, and utterly alien.