mindmap root((美丽)) beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest pleasure to the senses and stirs intellectual or spiritual emotion: ~ mountain scenery. lovely applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation rather than to intellectual or spiritual pleasure: a ~ melody. handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure resulting from proportion, symmetry, or elegance: a ~ Georgian mansion. pretty applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness that pleases by its delicacy, grace, or charm: a painter of conventionally ~ scenes. comely is like handsome in suggesting cool approval rather than emotional response: the ~ grace of a dancer. fair suggests beauty based on purity, flawlessness, or freshness: looking for fashion models with ~ faces.