Definition of Good-looking

1. Adjective. Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion. "Our southern women are well-favored"

Exact synonyms: Better-looking, Fine-looking, Handsome, Well-favored, Well-favoured
Similar to: Beautiful
Derivative terms: Handsomeness

Definition of Good-looking

1. Adjective. attractive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Good-looking

good-byes
good-den
good-faith
good-fellowship
good-for-naught
good-for-nothing
good-for-nothings
good-hearted
good-heartedly
good-heartedness
good-humored
good-humoredly
good-humoredness
good-humoured
good-king-henry
good-looking (current term)
good-lookingness
good-natured
good-naturedly
good-naturedness
good-neighborliness
good-neighbourliness
good-sized
good-tempered
good-temperedness
good-time
good-time Charlie
good God
good Lord

Literary usage of Good-looking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"ON A good-looking YOUNG LADY. OME time ago I had the fortune to witness at the house of Er- ... GOODLOOKING ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"To endeavour to regard them both benevolently, is the task of a philosopher; and he who can do so is a very lucky Fogey. IV ON A good-looking YOUNG LADY ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
""Oh!" said his ghostly father ; ** how old is she ?" " Seventeen." " good-looking ?" " The prettiest girl in the village." "What is her name? ..."

4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"Too good- looking, eh ?" " Well," I said with an effort—yet as he pressed me I felt ... I don't say that you're not good-looking, you know," I observed. ..."

5. A Plea for the Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling by Henry Alford (1881)
"A correspondent asks me, good looking " well look- or wen looking ? ... But, at the same time, to be good looking is not to look good. It is, in one sense, ..."

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