cute
Forms
- Comparative
- cuter
- Superlative
- cutest
Definitions
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.
- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
2.Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
3.Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle her cute little ass as she took off her panties.
- He's got such cute buns.
4.Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- "This time we aren't interested in anything cute or cryptic. We want the truth."
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2760
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Aphetic form of acute, originally meaning “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731).
Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c.
1834.
Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.