attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
<adj.all> a cute kid with pigtails a cute little apartment cunning kittens a cunning baby
obviously contrived to charm
<adj.all> an insufferably precious performance a child with intolerably cute mannerisms
Cute \Cute\ (k[=u]t), a. [An abbrev. of acute.] 1. Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]
2. pleasantly attractive, in a delicate way; -- said of children, young ladies, pet animals and some objects, but seldom of adults; as, a cute child; a cute kitten; a cute little house; a cute statue. [PJC]
3. smart-alecky or impertinent; as, a cute remark. [PJC]
4. affectedly clever. --RHUD [PJC]
Yeah, I know, the thing is commercial, but you gotta admit it's cute.
The highschool senior has never actually seen a football game. But she thinks the jackets are cute.
"They're cute and they dance good," she says.
He's a loner and a romantic and a little messy, but he's also a yuppie who lives in a really nice apartment furnished with carefully selected antiques, with an emphasis on the mission style. Mike is cute, round-faced and thoroughly American.
If looking too feminine or sexy isn't likely to advance one's career, neither is looking too cute.
"Maybe Baby," previously titled "Sooner or Later," is a cute, sophisticated story of a spoiled woman who thinks having a baby will be as easy as having an Alfa Romeo.
But Helen, Helen -- your story of the "scuttle" game at the radio station, where the men would chase a secretary until they cornered her and took off her panties is not an example of a cute flirtation or minor dalliance.
The children were "sweet, cute, just as cute as buttons.
The children were "sweet, cute, just as cute as buttons.
"It's a cute tank," says the mayor of this Dallas suburb, Lou Duggan. "It's not like the other tanks _ the cylindrical looking type of tanks.
French sounds cute. Portuguese, rendered in a Brazilian accent, sways like a song.
He was so cute.
"It was nice and cute," he says, "but as soon as you see it, you think of the raisins." Other products have dabbled in Claymation and similar techniques, but few have had breakthrough successes.
There they saw cute cartoon characters galore on Japanese products.
"We're not trying to be cute on this," insists Richard G. Darman, Bush's wily budget director, architect of this week's White House maneuvering.
Lovingly photographed and well acted, Children of Nature avoids casting the elderly as cute curmudgeons.
They are cute and their bubble-gum music is wildly popular with the preteen set.
We give them kind of a cute and furry little attribute, so we call them prairie dogs.
It's obvious from the way she snips at him that their "perfect" life (big house, cute daughter) isn't all it seems.
The cute, appealing look of this "funabout," as Ford Motor Co. likes to call the Capri, also could tempt the company to set high prices.
Don't buy fur!" they shouted, waving signs depicting cute creatures in various stages of annihilation.
Two of the firm's partners and several secretaries, she says, told her she looked cute.
But there are too many cute facial appeals to the audience. The Clandestine Marriage is good Christmas fare, for its tale is Cinderella with a twist.
"I'm not here to show cute little animals," says Mr. Bakshi.
Hodori is a cute little tiger, the ubiquitous symbol of the Olympics and, by association, of stability.
"Not even a cute one," she says.
A cute idea, but the idea of Sematech is not to create more chip companies, but to support chip making equipment firms.
It was too cute to pass up.
If this goes that middle line between being cute and scholarly, I think it would be a good thing," she said.
The book is filled with cute drawings of houses, children and race cars, alongside some quite sobering messages about problems Hutton faces.