cute

adjective6

1. •
   pretty and charming in a sweet or playful way

   • Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
2. •
   Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.

   • Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
3. •
   (informal) Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.

   • He's got such cute buns.
4. •
   Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.

   • The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
   • Don't get cute with me, boy!
5. •
   Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)

   • Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
6. •
   Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).

   • There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.