adjective (cuter, cutest)
1 pretty and attractive:
a cute little baby * (BrE) an unbearably cute picture of two kittens (= it seems sentimental)
2 (informal, especially AmE) sexually attractive:
Check out those cute guys over there!
3 (informal, especially AmE) clever, sometimes in an annoying way because a person is trying to get an advantage for him or herself:
She had a really cute idea. * Even as a child, he was always cute enough to get what he wanted. * Don't get cute with me!
cutely adverb:
to smile cutely
cuteness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cute is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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