Beauty and Aesthetics

captivating

holding your attention by being extremely interesting, exciting, pleasant, or attractive (urzekający)

bewitching

capturing interest as if by spell (czarujący)

enchanting (entrancing, enthralling)

delightfully charming or attractive (uroczy, zachwycający)

fetching

attractive; capturing interest (ujmujący)

mesmerising, hypnotic, mesmeric

making you give your attention completely so that you cannot think of anything else

alluring

very attractive or tempting (pociągający)

sublime

supreme or outstanding (niezrównany, wspaniały)

stunning

beautiful, marvelous

dazzling

extremely attractive or exciting (olśniewający)

radiant

expressing great happiness, hope, or beauty (promienny)

exquisite/refined

beautiful, excellent, finely detailed (cudowny, wyszukany, wyrafinowany)

resplendent

having a very bright or beautiful appearance (olśniewający)

unsightly

unpleasant to look at

plain

not decorated in any way; with nothing added (zwykły, prosty)

outrageous

greetly exceeding bounds of reason of moderation

horrid

unpleasant or exceedingly bad (okropny)

showy

attracting attention, sometimes by being extreme in color, design, or materials (efektowny)

ostentatious

intended to attract admiration or notice

pretentious

making claim to distinction or importance, esp undeservedly

lacklustre

lacking brillance or vitality (brak wyrazu)

grotesque

strange and often frightening in appearance or character by being abnormal and unnatural

ludicrous

absurd, inviting ridicule (niedorzeczny)

flamboyant

elaborately or excessively ornamented

pretty-pretty

ostentatiousely or inappropriately pretty

grisly

extremely unpleasant, especially because death or blood is involved (przerażający)

gross

extremely unpleasant (fuj)

appalling

so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you

to be easy on the eye

pleasant to look at/listen to

to be a sight for sore eyes

very pleased to see someone or that you think someone is very attractive

Beauty is the eye ofn the beholder

used to express the fact that not all people have the same opinions about what is attractive

Beauty is only skin-deep

used to say that a person's character is more important than how they look

eye-catching

very attractive or noticeable

not to be more than eye candy

someone or something that is attractive but not very interesting or useful

to be an eye sore

an unpleasant or ugly sight in a public place

to look like a million dollars

to look or feel extremely good, often because you are wearing something that costs a lot of money

not to be much to look at

to not be of good quality

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blot

a fault that spoils the appearance or reputation of someone or something

to be no oil painting oneself

to not be attractive

not to be a pretty sight

to be ugly or unpleasant to look at

common denominator

a fact or quality that is shared by two or more people or groups (wspólny mianownik)

to foster

to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings

pervasive

present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place (rozpowszechniony)

phenomenon

something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual or interesting

divine

delightful, pleasing

to get somebody down

make you feel unhappy or depressed

to boil down to

to reduce information, usually so that it contains only its most important parts

x-factor

a quality that you cannot describe that makes someone very special

appealing

attractive or interesting

artistry

great skill in creating or performing something

hard-wired

automatically thinking or behaving in a particular way:

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tweak

a slight change to something, especially in order to make it more correct, effective, or suitable

at its finest

## at its best

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## on top of the world

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extremely happy

to be at the end of one's tether

having no strength or patience left

to be at one's wits' end

so worried, confused, or annoyed that you do not know what to do next

to cry one's eyes/heart out

to cry in an uncontrolled way

to wind sb up

make someone angry

to go off the deep end

to get very angry about something or lose control of yourself

to laugh/shout one's head off

to laugh a lot, loudly

to stir sth up

to cause an unpleasant emotion or problem to begin or grow:

to take sth in

to understand completely the meaning or importance of something

epitome

the typical or highest example of a stated quality, as shown by a particular person or thing

artwork

the piece of art

endurance

the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time

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pervasiveness

the fact of being present and noticeable in every part of a thing or place (wszechobecność)

inherently

in a way that exists as a natural part (z natury)

perplexity/perplexing

a state of confusion

erudition/erudite

a state of having a lot of knowledge

frenzy/frenzied

excited and uncontrolled (rozgorączkowany)

cathartic

providing psychological relief through the expression of emotions

implicit

suggested but not communicated directly (ukryty)

**bias**

the fact of preferring a particular subject or thing (stronniczość)

decoy

something used to trick or confuse a person or animal

custodial staff

referring to or having the responsibility of protecting, caring for, or maintaining something or someone

lay (adj)

not trained in or not having a detailed knowledge of a particular subject

to assess

to judge

to depict

to represent

to be inclined to

to be likely to

to deem

to consider or judge something in a particular way

solely

only and not involving anyone or anything else

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chin-scratching/chin-stroking

careful thought about something

saunter

to walk in a slow and relaxed way

blatant

very obvious and intentional

acute

have a perceptive understanding or insight (przenikając)

to morph into

change form from one shape to another

to prompt/induce

/cause, bring about or give rise to

perishable

that decay quickly (łatwo się psujący)

infamous

famous for something considered bad

to reverberate

(rozlegać się) to have continuing and serious effects

conceptual

based on ideas or principles

to be in overdrive

pracować na nawyższych obrotach

to reach one's zenith

the best, highest, or most successful point or time

to open the floodgates

to allow a new situation or activity to develop and become very common

to portray

to represent or describe someone or something in a painting, film, book, or other artistic work

to illustrate

to draw pictures for a book, magazine, etc.

to sketch

a simple, quickly made drawing

to depict

to represent or show something in a picture or story

insight

the ability to hav a clear understanding of a complicated problem

foresight

the ability to judge correctly what is going to happen in the future and plan your actions based on this knowledge

forecast

a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future