cute

3 definitions found

cute - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cute \Cute\ (k[=u]t), a. [An abbrev. of acute.]
     1. Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. pleasantly attractive, in a delicate way; -- said of
        children, young ladies, pet animals and some objects, but
        seldom of adults; as, a cute child; a cute kitten; a cute
        little house; a cute statue.
        [PJC]
  
     3. smart-alecky or impertinent; as, a cute remark.
        [PJC]
  
     4. affectedly clever. --RHUD
        [PJC]

cute - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cute
      adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness
             or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little
             apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn:
             cunning, cute]
      2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious
         performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
         [syn: cute, precious]

cute - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "cute":
     Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adorable,
     adroit, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, attractive,
     authoritative, beautiful, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, clean,
     clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, daedal,
     dainty, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, delicate, designing,
     dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fancy, feline,
     foxy, good, goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, ingenious,
     insidious, inventive, knowing, lovely, magisterial, masterful,
     masterly, mignon, neat, no mean, pawky, politic, pretty,
     professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful,
     scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick,
     slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical,
     statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle,
     supple, tactful, tactical, the compleat, the complete, trickish,
     tricksy, tricky, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-done, wily,
     workmanlike