cute

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are…

   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. 2

   Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or…

   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. 3

   Sexually attractive or pleasing

   Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.

   • He's got such cute buns.
   • I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle her cute little ass as she took off her panties.
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   1. 4

      Affected or contrived to charm

      Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.

      • 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!
      • "This time we aren't interested in anything cute or cryptic. We want the truth."
   2. 5

      Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)

      • Then Turpin being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
      • 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.
      • "The police are cute enough, of course, to choose either a Roman Catholic or a materialist as the magistrate."
   3. 6

      Evincing cleverness

      Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).

      • There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
      • Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key.
      • We state a cute result that can be derived from our calcuations^([sic]). It is not applied anywhere later, but shows that graphs with heavy tails and large clustering coefficients have large cores.

The neighborhood

• synonymhaving features mainly attributed to infants and small
• synonymcuddly animals