Comely

Definition: Comely

Comely

Adjective

1. According with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior".

2. Very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "comely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Comely

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Crosswords: Comely

Books

• Slocum and the Comely Corpse (reference)

• The comely frontispiece : the emblematic title-page in England, 1550-1660 (reference)

• The Very Comely Countess [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Comely Mezzo (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

A comely man

Beginning with "comely": comely-looking.

Albanian

tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), i përshtatshëm (adapt, adequate, adjustable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, canny, competent, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, done, due, elastic, eligible, expedient, fit, fitting, germane, handy, likely, livable, liveable, opportune, Pat, proper, propitious, qualified, rated, relevant, seemly, suitable, suited, tenable, well-becoming, well-suited), i lezetshëm (agreeable, cool, delicious, delightful, handsome, ingratiatingly, jolly, nice, pretty), i hijshëm (becoming, charming, cool, dainty, decent, decorous, delicate, delicious, distinguished, elegant, graceful, jimp, nice, personable), i duhur (accordant, appropriate, befitting, due, due to, fitting, indispensable, necessary, needful, owing, proper, required, right). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, cunning, dainty, dapper, encore, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, pretty), ‏جميلة (beauty, bonny, shapely, stunner), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet). (various references)

Bulgarian 

миловиден, представителен (gallant, handsome, personable, portly, representative). (various references)

Czech

slièný (dapper), pohledný (good looking, personable), pùvabný (appealing, attractive, charming, dainty, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lightsome, lovely, pleasing, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome). (various references)

Farsi 

خوش منظر (Scenic, Seemly, Spiffy), خوش ایند (Desirable, Winsome), خوبرو. (various references)

French

charmant, belle, beau. (various references)

German

anmutig (charming, daintily, dainty, graceful, gracefully, lovely, pretty). (various references)

Greek 

κόσμιοσ (decent, decorous, neat, proper, tidy), κομψόσ (bijou, chic, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), νόστιμοσ (dainty, nice, palatable, pretty, racy, relishable, savorous, savoury, toothsome, zest), χαριείσ (personable), χαριτωμένοσ (cute, darling, dinky, graceful, lightsome, pretty). (various references)

Hebrew 

יפ�" (appropriately, beautiful, beautifully, fair, finely, good looking, handsome, lovely, nice, picturesque, pretty, right, well), ח� � י (attractive, graceful), � ו�" (beautiful, dwelling place, habitation, lodging, lovely, oasis, pasture), � א�" (dwelling, fine, habitation, handsome, meadow, natty, nice, pasture, personable, pleasant, presentable, pretty, seemly, sightly). (various references)

Hungarian

bájos (attractive, catchy, charming, cunning, engaging, graceful, gracious, lovely, sweet). (various references)

Indonesian

cantik (beautiful, dainty, lief, lovely, pretty), molek (bonny), jelita. (various references)

Italian

avvenente (attractive, charming, sightly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

佳容 (comely face). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday). (various references)

Manx

bwoyagh (attractive, beauteous, beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty), bwaagh (beauteous, beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty). (various references)

Pig Latin

omelycay

Portuguese

gracioso (airy, beautiful, benign, canny, dainty, elegant, goodly, graceful, gracious, handsome, jimp, lightsome, lovely, seemly, slender, slim, well-turned, willowy, witty), digno (august, creditable, deserver, deserving, dignified, gentle, meritorious, noble, praiseworthy, respectable, worshipful, worth, worthy), decente (decent, decorous, demure, honest, seemly), agradável (agreeable, amiable, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured). (various references)

Romanian

convenabil (acceptable, admissible, appropriate, becoming, cheap, convenient, conveniently, eligible, fair, feasible, fit, fitting, goodly, likely, reasonable, seemly, suitable, suited), plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, dulcet, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), frumuşel (dinky, gently, good looking, pretty, simply, slowly, tidy), drãguţ (attractive, beloved, charming, cute, dainty, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, sweet, sweetheart), drãgãlaş (dainty, gentle, lovely, sweet). (various references)

Russian 

миловидный (bonny, goodly, nice-looking). (various references)

Scottish

tlachdmhor (delightful, desirable), sultmhor (fertile, merry), maiseach (decorated, ornamental). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zgodan (appropriate, apt, attractive, convenient, felicitous, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, occasional, opportune, pat, suitable), ljupko (prettily), lepuškast (good looking, pretty). (various references)

Spanish

lindo (beautiful, bonny, charming, cute, delightful, hairdo, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, what, whatever), guapo (beautiful, dandified, good looking, handsome, lazy, nice, nice-looking, pretty), gentil (decent, genteel, gentile, graceful, nice, sonsy), bien parecido (good looking, goodly, handsome, nice-looking, personable). (various references)

Swedish

vacker (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, pretty, sightly, sweet, tidy, winsome), attraktiv (appealing, attractive, inviting, personable, prepossessing). (various references)

Turkish

yakışıklı (good looking, handsome, personable, shapely, sightly, smart, stunner, well favored, well-favoured), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), alımlı (attractive, charming, endearing, engaging, fetching, prepossessing), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references)

Ukrainian

миловидний (fair-faced, nice-looking, sonsy), добропристойний (modest). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhã nhặn; đúng đắn, duyên dáng (airy, charming, graceful, ingratiatingly, personable, smart, well-favoured, well-looking), dễ thương lịch sự, đoan trang (decent, decently, decorous, matronal, matronlike, matronly, respectable), đẹp (bonny, charming, gainly, good-looking, goodly, natty, picturesque, splendid). (various references)

Welsh

telaid (beautiful), prydweddol (handsome), mirain (beautiful, fair), hawddgar (amiable), gosgeiddig (graceful), golygus (handsome, sightly). (various references)

decet. (various references)

bicumelic. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "comely": uncomely, welcomely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Camley, comaely, Comelin, comelyy, comerl, comey, Comly, Commey, commiy, comtel, comul, Conoly, contly, Copely, Coseley, Cosmelli, Cotely, Cromley, Cromsley, Cumella, cumly, Cwmyoy, doomily, Gomley, Gormely, Iommelli, Jommelli. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: celom, cymol.

-2 letters: cloy, cole, coly, come, cyme, elmy, mole, moly, ylem.

-3 letters: cel, col, coy, elm, ley, lye, mel, moc, mol, ole, yom.

-4 letters: el, em, lo, me, mo, my, oe, om, oy, ye, yo.

+2 letters: claymore, coemploy, comelily, cymosely, myceloid, uncomely.

+3 letters: claymores, coemploys, complexly, comradely, contumely, copolymer, hemolytic, lobectomy, micropyle, mycophile, myelocyte, polymeric, welcomely.

+4 letters: acromegaly, becomingly, coemployed, completely, complexify, complexity, composedly, consumedly, copolymers, coulometry, cyclometer, cyclostome, lachrymose, lumpectomy, lymphocyte, melancholy, melanocyte, micropyles, motorcycle, mycoflorae, mycologies, mycophiles, myelocytes, myelocytic, plyometric, polychrome, semicolony.

+5 letters: amylopectin, calorimetry, chrysomelid, cleistogamy, clergywoman, clergywomen, coemploying, collenchyma, colorimetry, combatively, comedically, commendably, commensally, competently, complacency, compositely, confirmedly, copolymeric, corymbosely, cosmetology, cyclometers, cyclostomes, cytomegalic, declamatory, demonically, embolectomy, exclamatory, flamboyance, hypokalemic, lymphocytes, maledictory, meiotically, melanocytes, melodically, mesocyclone, mesophyllic, metonymical, molecularly, mollycoddle, motorcycled, motorcycles, myelopathic, myoclonuses, myoelectric, myrmecology, plyometrics, polemically, polychromed, polychromes, splenectomy.