What's the difference between "beatific" and "beautiful"?

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Answer 1

Beatific is beautiful with a religious stick up its butt.

Answer 2

Beautiful is the generic word for something we find pleasing to look at or hear.

Beatific is related more to what one might call a "religious experience" and went away feeling blessed. Possibly something they considered a miracle of life ..like seeing a baby born.

Answer 3

beatific:. bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
beautiful: having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.

Answer 4

be·a·tif·ic /ˌbiəˈtɪfɪk/ [bee-uh-tif-ik]
–adjective
1. bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
2. blissful; saintly: a beatific smile.

—Related forms
be·a·tif·i·cal·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 2. serene, exalted, angelic, rapturous.
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be·a·tif·ic (bē'ə-tĭf'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj. Showing or producing exalted joy or blessedness: a beatific smile.


[Latin beātificus : beātus, happy (from past participle of beāre, to bless; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots) + -ficus, -fic.]

be'a·tif'i·cal·ly adv.
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beatific

adjective
1. experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace"
2. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: angelic]

beau·ti·ful /ˈbyutəfəl/ [byoo-tuh-fuhl]
–adjective
1. having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
2. excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef.
3. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.
–noun
4. the concept of beauty (usually prec. by the).
5. (used with a plural verb) beautiful things or people collectively (usually prec. by the): the good and the beautiful.
6. the ideal of beauty (usually prec. by the): to strive to attain the beautiful.
–interjection
7. wonderful; fantastic: You got two front-row seats? Beautiful!
8. extraordinary; incredible: used ironically: Your car broke down in the middle of the freeway? Beautiful!
[Origin: 1520–30; beauty + -ful]

—Related forms
beau·ti·ful·ly, adverb
beau·ti·ful·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. comely, seemly, attractive, fair, beauteous. Beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty refer to a pleasing appearance. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, esp. in that which is small or of minor importance: a pretty child.
—Antonyms 1. ugly.
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beau·ti·ful (byōō'tə-fəl) Pronunciation Key
adj.

1. Having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight.
2. Excellent; wonderful.

Answer 5

beatific is religious...a holy or spiritual vision.

beautiful is just peoples views of how another person looks

Yeah, right...you gotta know.....you never ask anything that you don't already know the answer to :(

Answer 6

Beatific refers to saintliness, in the Christian sense.