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Answer for the clue "Beautiful, very attractive ", 8 letters:
gorgeous

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Word definitions for gorgeous in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES drop-dead gorgeous COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB absolutely ▪ So we went up, and we got to know him, and he was absolutely gorgeous , of course. ▪ Yeh, he's absolutely gorgeous . ▪ Denice thinks she's absolutely ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gorgeous is the 2nd mini-album released by the South Korean boy band, F.Cuz . The album was released in physical and digital format on November 18, 2010. The mini-album was also released in Japan and Taiwan on December 8, 2010 and December 16, 2010, respectively. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge , n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. ...

Usage examples of gorgeous.

And a gorgeous pair of eyes they were, the young police sergeant noted as Abie Singleton continued her tirade against the Houston Police Department.

Stephanotis, passiflora, tuberose, alamanda, Bougainvillea, and other trailers of gorgeous colors, climb over everything, and make the night heavy with their odors.

Now if there were several ministers in the church, dressed in such gorgeous colors that I could see them at the distance from the apse at which my limited income compels me to sit, and candles were burning, and censers were swinging, and the platform was full of the sacred bustle of a gorgeous ritual worship, and a bell rang to tell me the holy moments, I should not mind the pillar at all.

Picture, then, the pride with which, one early day of her new bridehood, she drove to the Palace of St Cloud in the gorgeous Borghese State carriage, behind six horses, and with an escort of torch-bearers, to pay a formal call on her sister-in-law, Josephine, Empress-to-be.

Then they clad her in fine linen, and put over it gorgeous, broidered garments, and a royal mantle of purple, and her own jewels which she had worn in bygone days, and with them others still more splendid, and threw about her head a gauzy veil worked with golden stars.

The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage.

Celluloid shades could conclude with a million dollars, beach recliners, and cocktails decorated with festive small umbrellas, but what of those flickering, gorgeous phantasms subsequent to the final credits, when the theater is strewn with sad spilled popcorn, and the cinephiles have all gone home to work on last-minute dishes or bills before going quietly to their beds?

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.

Beyond the bridge they passed across a lower level, jungle clad with delicate bamboos and dhak, and sweet-scented shrubs, and clusters of gorgeous oleanders.

Across the back of the house was a sunroom, all done up in white wicker and green chintz, with a view of absolutely gorgeous gardens, and farther away, across a stone patio and staircase lined with white plaster urns, the blue of Dingle Bay.

From the high glass doorway, communicating with the drawing-rooms, at the far end, among towering ranks of rare and gorgeous flowers, over the encaustic tiles, and through this atmosphere of perfume, did Captain Stanley Lake, in his shooting coat, glide, smiling, toward his beautiful young wife.

Read the passage in the eulogy on Choate where he describes him arming himself in the entire panoply of his gorgeous rhetoric--and you will get some far-away conception of the power of this magician.

This saddle is made of sheepskins, tanned on one side and woolly on the other, fastened by gorgeous embroidered straps.

To my right the bottom of the cliff was lost in the dense foliage of the forest, which terminated at its very foot, rearing its gorgeous foliage fully a thousand feet against its stern and forbidding neighbour.

What makes the whole effect even more gorgeous is that a belt of a hundred and fifty feet around the marble wall of the temple is planted with an indigenous species of sunflower, which were at the time when we first saw them a sheet of golden bloom.