Fine-looking

Definition: Fine-looking

Fine-looking

Adjective

1. Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman.

Date "fine-looking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonyms: Fine-looking

Synonyms: better-looking (adj), good-looking (adj), handsome (adj), well-favored (adj), well-favoured (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fine-looking

English words defined with "fine-looking": better-looking ♦ good-looking ♦ handsome ♦ well-favored, well-favoured. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Fine-looking

"Fine-looking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fine-looking" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fine-looking

Language		Translations for "fine-looking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مظهر جميل. (various references)

Finnish		pulska (fine, of fine physique). (various references)

French		joli. (various references)

Pig Latin		ine-lookingfay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fine-looking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-i-k-l-n-n-o-o"
	-2 letters: inglenook.
	-3 letters: eloining, folioing, likening.
	-4 letters: finking, finlike, foiling, foining, fooling, glonoin, inkling, ionogen, kilning, knifing, linking, looking, nonlife, oinking.
	-5 letters: eloign, filing, fining, flooie, folkie, gonion, goonie, inking, ionone, legion, lignin, liking, lining, logion, looing, nonego, oiling, olefin, online.
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