<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.</li><li>Appealing and delightful; charming: What a cute toy!</li><li>Affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious: The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.</li><li>Mentally keen; clever; shrewd.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The cutes, Informal. Self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness: The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.</li></ul>