What's the difference between pulchritude and pulchritudinous?

Pulchritude


Definition:

  • (n.) That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.
  • (n.) Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For those not yet initiated, Brick is the 41-year-old writer who this week graced the Daily Mail with a long article about the advantages of her great pulchritude (lots of attention from men, who only have to drive past her in their cars to be overcome with the need to purchase a gift for her) and the disadvantages (unerring hatred from all women, who are jealous of the threat Brick's very existence poses to their own relationships with said men).

Pulchritudinous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His role here was not as effective as it might have been, probably because the movie itself wasn't up to much, and the relatively dull pulchritudinous leads – Roberts, Pitt – were another reminder that Hollywood likes bankable good-lookers as its stars.

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