cute

[kyoot] /kyut/
adjective, cuter, cutest.
1.
attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty:
a cute child; a cute little apartment.
2.
appealing and delightful; charming:
What a cute toy!
3.
affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious:
The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.
4.
mentally keen; clever; shrewd.
noun
5.
the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.
Idioms
6.
meet cute, Informal.
  1. (of a romantic couple) to meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way:
    In this type of movie the boy and girl always meet cute.
  2. Also, meet-cute. a situation or occasion when potential romantic partners meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way:
    a classic Hollywood meet cute; his meet-cute with Jane in the bookstore.
Origin
1615-25; aphetic variant of acute
Related forms
cutely, adverb
cuteness, noun
Examples from the web for cute
  • Most adults think it's cute when children imitate whatever they see.
  • It was impersonal-sweet, cute, the kind of thing you used to see on record-album covers in the sixties.
  • Alsop isn't trying to be cute, and there is logic to his zaniness.
  • Sugar was cute, but she had a mean, feral look in her eyes.
  • Turned into a chant, a potentially cute idea devolves into a harangue.
  • One solution may lie with her casting, which favors a forthright briskness over the cute.
  • The puffy tacos are really quite cute sitting side by side.
  • If it wasn't so irritatingly tragic it would be kind of cute.
  • At this life stage, your cute little kids become teenage drivers, competing with you for the car.
  • What's not cute are the germs on those little animals.
British Dictionary definitions for cute

cute

/kjuːt/
adjective
1.
appealing or attractive, esp in a pretty way
2.
(mainly US, informal) sexually attractive
3.
(informal) affecting cleverness or prettiness
4.
clever; shrewd
Derived Forms
cutely, adverb
cuteness, noun
Word Origin
C18 (in the sense: clever): shortened from acute
Word Origin and History for cute
adj.

1731, "clever," shortening of acute; informal sense of "pretty" is 1834, American English student slang. Related: Cuteness.

Slang definitions & phrases for cute

cute

adjective
  1. Shrewd; sly; tricky (1730s+)
  2. Disrespectfully frivolous; smart-ass: Don't be cute with me, you slimy pimp (1950s+)