Having great physical beauty.
From Latin 'pulchritudo' (beauty), from 'pulcher' (beautiful). Ironically, this word for beauty is one of the ugliest-sounding words in English — a famous linguistic paradox.
This is English's cruelest joke: the word for BEAUTIFUL sounds absolutely HIDEOUS! Say it: pulk-rih-TOO-din-us. It sounds like a dinosaur with a cold! English, why are you like this?! 🦕😂
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