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GOOD-LOOKING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
Example:
our southern women are well-favored
Synonyms:
better-looking; fine-looking; good-looking; handsome; well-favored; well-favoured
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Context examples:
What a very good-looking man!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But Catherine did not know her own advantages—did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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