Meaning & use
pulchritudinous
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Physically beautiful or attractive.
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The novel's narrator describes the actress as strikingly pulchritudinous.
Critics praised the film's pulchritudinous cinematography as much as its plot.
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This is a deliberately fancy, somewhat old-fashioned word for 'beautiful'; it is rarely used in everyday speech and often appears for humorous or ironic effect.
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