hello and welcome back to Easy English with James today we're going to have a quick look
at the word beautiful okay and I'm going to explain why you shouldn't use this word
quite as much as you are right now okay how many times have you said she's beautiful it's beautiful
they're beautiful everything is beautiful okay if you want to take your English to the next level
try looking for other ways to say beautiful and in this video I'm going to show you 10
ways that you can say that someone or something is beautiful so stick with me for the rest of the
video okay first up you see a beautiful woman okay you can say she's beautiful
but if you really want to show what you think about her you would say she's gorgeous she is
gorgeous she's gorgeous okay much better word than beautiful if you say to a woman you are beautiful
you know everything in the world can be beautiful my car is beautiful my PlayStation is beautiful
my house is beautiful so when you say you are beautiful maybe the woman just goes oh okay sure
but if you say you are gorgeous you are gorgeous she'll go thank you very much okay much much
better than beautiful you are gorgeous she is gorgeous they are gorgeous okay this can be used
for people most often with women but it's also used for the environment places and generally
things that are very very beautiful you might be looking at a really nice view and you might say
ah that's gorgeous let me let me take a picture the view is gorgeous okay so our number one is
gorgeous make sure you pronounce it correctly gorgeous gorgeous okay number two this one is
specifically used for environments okay let's say you're at the top of a mountain and you have an
amazing view of these beautiful rivers valleys and lakes you might say here it's really picturesque
picturesque okay picturesque again means beautiful it's it's a word we use instead of beautiful here
it's really beautiful here it's really picturesque picturesque has the meaning that it's so beautiful
you want to take pictures all the time okay it's really picturesque here picturesque anytime where
you think oh you know this this village this city these mountains this beach is very beautiful and
you want to take pictures it's picturesque it's really picturesque okay now pronunciation picture
you probably know picturesque to all the sounds in that word picturesque. picturesque. it's really
picturesque here I'm sure you know some places that are really picturesque can anybody tell me
one picturesque place in your country or where you're from write it in the comments I'd love to
know okay number three another one that we use when we're describing people okay this one is
a little bit generic okay we can say a beautiful girl or a beautiful guy but we might want to be a
bit more generic when we're speaking in a business setting we might not want to say something that's
a little bit crude like beautiful we might instead say attractive he's attractive he's very
attractive he's really attractive she's attractive she's really attractive okay we could even add
an extra word and make a combo word here attractive looking she's really attractive looking
he's really attractive looking okay we can also use attractive looking when we're talking about
a product okay let's say you're trying to sell a product of yours you might describe it as
attractive looking it's a product that people like to look at you could say my new gaming pc is very
attractive looking okay looks really cool it looks really nice okay it's a really attractive looking
car really attractive looking car okay wow your house is really attractive looking i like it it's
such a nice house attractive looking okay listen again for pronunciation attractive looking really
attractive looking attractive looking okay the next one is for things that are so beautiful they
make you stop what you're doing okay if you see something that is so beautiful you're just like
like that we won't say stunning stunning wow your car is stunning okay let's say you're a husband on
your wedding day and you see your beautiful wife walking down the aisle towards you you might say
you look stunning darling okay you look absolutely stunning okay stunning is for things that are
so beautiful you stop what you're doing okay to stun or to be stunned in English means nearly the
same as to freeze like okay something so beautiful it makes you freeze it is stunning okay you're in
a really beautiful environment you're on a boat out on a lake and all you can see is snow-capped
mountains there's a nice breeze you might turn to your friend and say it really is stunning here i
want to live here forever it's so stunning look at it okay wow this woman is stunning okay this lady
is stunning listen again to pronunciation stunning stunning stunning okay stunning okay the next one
is quite funny this one is something we use again very similar to the last one stunning but even
more stunning so much so that your jaw that's this thing here your jaw drops to the floor like
like this we can actually say in English something is jaw dropping jaw dropping
if something is so beautiful that when you look at it or her or him your jaw goes
like this it is jaw dropping okay on her wedding day she looked jaw dropping okay the snow falling
in New York at Christmas time with the Christmas lights behind it looks jaw-dropping jaw-dropping
okay lots of things that are really really really beautiful can look jaw dropping let's check the
pronunciation of this one jaw jaw dropping jaw dropping she looks jaw-dropping wow the view
from my hotel room is absolutely jaw-dropping okay jaw-dropping okay moving on to the next one
this one is when something is so beautiful you cannot stop looking at it you're just like this
okay the other day i saw a Christmas tree and it was the most amazing Christmas tree I've ever seen
it was so big so beautiful and so well decorated i said this tree is mesmerizing mesmerizing
mesmerizing is something that you cannot stop looking at okay something that is mesmerizing
i was mesmerized by this tree it is mesmerizing okay you might look at uh a beautiful bird flying
in the sky and it's going left to right and you just say that is mesmerizing mesmerizing i can't
take my eyes off of that bird okay you can say this about men and women too you can say she
looks mesmerizing she looks mesmerizing i can't stop looking okay she looks mesmerizing mess me
right zing mesmerizing another similar word which is our next one is the word dazzling dazzling
you'll hear this a lot about women when they're walking down the catwalk models who are very
beautiful they wear really nice clothes sometimes they wear clothes that are very bright and shiny
and you look at them and you're just like wow it's very bright it's dazzling okay it's something that
everybody there will immediately turn and look at because it's so loud and
easy to see because it's so beautiful you might say that dress that you're wearing is dazzling
it's dazzling okay that new shirt you've got is dazzling it's dazzling that shiny new sports car
that you're driving around is absolutely dazzling okay listen for the pronunciation of this one
DAZZ-LING. Dazzling. Absolutely dazzling. okay. dazzling. Okay the next one we often use with
something that takes a lot of skill let's say you're a fan of football like me and you see
your favourite player Ronaldo, Messi do something that is really beautiful to watch maybe they're
dribbling the ball they go around three defenders and then they kick an amazing
shot straight into the top corner of the net you might say not that was a beautiful goal
but that was sublime that was a sublime shot it's something beautiful because not everyone can do it
it takes a lot of skill okay when something is made very very well crafted very well you might
say this is sublime let's say somebody does a painting and this painting you know this painting
took a lot of time okay and it must have taken a lot of hard work you might say wow the detail this
is sublime this is absolutely sublime okay you'll notice with a lot of the words i'm using today
we use absolutely to take it even to a higher level this is sublime this is absolutely sublime
okay gorgeous absolutely gorgeous okay absolutely is like a little boost and it makes it even more
of that thing so absolutely beautiful would be a little bit more than beautiful
so sublime again if you're seeing somebody doing something that you think takes a lot of skill
you'd say that is a sublime piece of work okay he scored a sublime free kick okay
that dress that she's wearing looks absolutely sublime okay sublime really really beautiful
the next one is for when we want to talk about food okay when you're in a restaurant and maybe
this restaurant is really nice the chef cooks these amazing dishes the food comes to your table
and you look at it and you think wow this food it looks tasty but it looks beautiful you might say
this food looks mouth watering mouth watering what is mouth watering you know when you smell or look
at really nice food and the the saliva that's the water in your mouth starts to make you I'm
really hungry i want to eat that that is something that is mouth-watering when you look at food and
you start to make water in your mouth because you want to eat it so much that food is mouth-watering
mouth-watering okay you go to a restaurant and you say that food was absolutely mouth-watering thank
you so much okay mouth-watering let's check the pronunciation mouth that "TH" sound in the middle
mouth water ring mouth watering okay the food in that restaurant is absolutely mouth-watering
you simply must try it go there right now mouth-watering okay our final word today instead
of beautiful is the word magnificent magnificent this is often used to describe buildings or
architecture let's say you're in turkey and you're looking at the Hagia Sofia okay and you look at
this building it's so big it's so old and it's so beautiful you might look up at this building and
say this is magnificent magnificent okay you might be standing in New York city looking up
at the empire state building and you might say this is magnificent this is truly magnificent
again we can use this word to describe people she looks magnificent he looks magnificent but it's
most often used to describe beautiful buildings are there any beautiful buildings in your country
that you might say are magnificent again see if you can write them in the comments I'm
really interested in this stuff so tell me one beautiful tell me one building in your country
that looks really magnificent that if i saw it i just wow this is magnificent okay
magnificent this building is magnificent
okay thank you very much for joining me today if you enjoyed this video make sure that you hit
like and subscribe so that you can see all of my future content okay i post new videos quite often
stick with them and you'll learn English really really well okay and you'll improve
a lot okay thanks again for joining me I'll see you again for my next video bye