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Collocations for beautiful - adj.

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem, sound
become, grow
make sb/sth
We did all we could to make the room beautiful.
find sb/sth
He found her exquisitely beautiful.
be considered
She was never considered beautiful at school.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
exceptionally, extraordinarily, outstandingly, really, remarkably, supremely (esp. BrE), truly, very
absolutely, perfectly, quite, utterly
just, simply
‘They're just beautiful,’ breathed Jo, when she saw the earrings.
almost
I remember her as pretty, almost beautiful.
amazingly, astonishingly, breathtakingly, impossibly, incredibly, spectacularly, staggeringly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, unbelievably
naturally
She didn't need make-up. She was naturally beautiful.
uniquely
exquisitely
serenely
classically, conventionally
Her features were classically beautiful, with perfectly structured high cheekbones.
achingly, eerily, hauntingly, heartbreakingly, painfully, strangely
a hauntingly beautiful melody

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Beautiful is used with these nouns:
baby, beach, blonde, bloom, blossom, bride, building, city, clothes, coastline, colour, complexion, country, countryside, couple, creature, day, decoration, design, display, dress, evening, fabric, face, feature, figure, flat, flower, friendship, garden, girl, hair, hand, harmony, home, horse, hotel, house, illustration, instrument, jewellery, lady, lake, landscape, leg, mansion, melody, morning, mountain, mouth, music, night, painting, palace, paradise, park, photograph, picture, piece, place, poem, room, route, scene, scenery, scent, setting, shade, sight, singing, skin, smile, song, sound, specimen, spot, stranger, stretch, sunset, sunshine, surroundings, swan, thing, village, voice, waterfall, weather, wife, woman

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