cute: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with C · ends with E
Meaning of cute
adj
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.
Example: Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Example: Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
Example: He's got such cute buns.
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Example: The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
Listed forms: cuter, cutest.
Source: Wiktionary — cute.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cute.
adjective
attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
adjective
obviously contrived to charm
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cute in our word lists?
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Letter-value score of cute
C(3) + U(1) + T(1) + E(1) = 6 points.
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Anagrams of cute
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Shorter words from cute
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