There are words that are not exactly obsolete, but have gone out of active speech use. Therefore, the question arises: a pretty face, what is it? The difficulty is also in the fact that this phrase has different, so to speak, emotional poles. It all depends on who speaks (man or woman) and who is called that: a guy or a girl.
Dictionary meaning and other meanings
Cute is someone who has a pleasant, endearing appearance. But there are subtleties here, as elsewhere. We are dealing with language, and this substance is extremely capricious and multifaceted, so not all the delights of speech can be contained in a dictionary. Accordingly, a pretty face is most likely a synonym for a beautiful one. But a lot depends on who is talking and about whom. If a man says this about a woman, then he either notes her beauty, or states the fact of her external attractiveness, which slightly falls short of beauty. Intonation is very important, it depends on what meaning is put into the phrase. "Cute face" as a characteristic can reflect both positivelocation, and negative. But men who see a beautiful or just a nice girl, as a rule, are far from malice. Another thing is when they see a young man who is too handsome, here the endurance can betray them. When a middle-aged or elderly person talks like that about a young guy, he most likely does not approve of his behavior or his appearance. Or maybe a very unpleasant option. An elderly man selflessly envies youth and beauty. But let's leave that and move on. When we hear from a woman "He has such a pretty face!", what does it mean?
What sense do women put into the phrase
If a young lady is awarded with such a characteristic, then the meaning is ironically contemptuous. Because women are reluctant to recognize someone else's beauty or good looks. That's the way they are. The only exceptions are various kinds of screen stars, famous personalities. Everything is simple here - different weight categories: a girl easily admits that she is inferior, for example, to Scarlett Johansson, but she will never agree that her friend has better taste than her.
When women pay attention to a handsome face of a guy, then in this case it is admiration for his beauty. True, there are young ladies who only like the brutal, masculine beauty of the stronger sex. When it comes to cuteness, then this beauty is feminine, even if we are talking about a man.
Everything is rather ambiguous. But it doesn't seem that hard to understand what is meant.
An example of cuteness - Tristan Ludlow
It would be possible to take Brad Pitt himself as an example in this section, but this would be wrong, although we think there would be quite a few people who consider the actor cute. But we are talking about the character of Brad Pitt in the movie "Legends of Autumn". The picture tells the story of a family. It includes the father - Colonel Ludlow and his three sons. The middle one is called Tristan. The most striking thing about the character is that outwardly he looks too handsome for a man. Tristan has a feminine beauty, but at the same time a masculine, steely character. It is on this contradiction between external and internal, male and female that the psychology of the character is built, which is remembered in some detail by the viewer, even after the first viewing.
So if the reader asks himself: "Pretty face, how to understand this?", he can immediately remember the movie. If we are talking about a woman, then any pretty girl will do.
