Definition of Pulchritude

1. Noun. Physical beauty (especially of a woman).

Generic synonyms: Beauty
Specialized synonyms: Curvaceousness, Shapeliness, Voluptuousness
Derivative terms: Pulchritudinous

Definition of Pulchritude

1. n. That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.

Definition of Pulchritude

1. Noun. Physical beauty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pulchritude

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulchritude

pukka
puku
pukus
pul
pula
pulas
pulasan
pulasan tree
pulaski
pulaskis
pulchrified
pulchrifies
pulchrify
pulchrifying
pulchritude (current term)
pulchritudes
pulchritudinous
pulchritudinously
pulchrous
puldron
puldrons
pule
puled
pulegone
puler
pulers
pules
puli
pulicene

Literary usage of Pulchritude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... or the heavenly Venus, was sometimes among the Pagans a name for the supreme Deity, as that which is the most amiable being, and first pulchritude, ..."

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