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Definition: Good-looking |
Good-lookingAdjective1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "good-looking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: Good-lookingSynonyms: better-looking (adj), fine-looking (adj), handsome (adj), well-favored (adj), well-favoured (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Good-looking |
| English words defined with "good-looking": better-looking ♦ dishy ♦ fine-looking ♦ handsome ♦ luxuriantly ♦ well-favored, well-favoured. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "good-looking": Cattle ♦ Letter, Loom ♦ Shawl, Squinting. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman) I never met a woman that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they've got. (A Streetcar Named Desire; writing credit: Tennessee Williams; Oscar Saul) No, I just don't like the idea of a good-looking guy out with my girlfriend (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) That's a good-looking piece (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates) I don't want to be this good-looking and athletic (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Beach babe" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Photo of good-looking girl on the beach , somewhere at Caribbean ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Good-looking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Good-looking" is used about 333 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) | 99.7% | 332 | 15,754 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 333 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "good-looking": good-looking-the. | |
Ending with "good-looking": not-so-good-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "good-looking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | إمراة رائعة (good-looking woman). (various references) | |
Chinese | 美貌 , 睆 (cute), 好看 . (various references) | |
Dutch | goeduitziend. (various references) | |
Esperanto | bonaspekta. (various references) | |
Finnish | komea (fine, grand, imposing, magnificent, splendid, stately), kaunis (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely), hauskannäköinen (handsome). (various references) | |
French | jolie femme (good-looking woman), belle gosse (good-looking girl), belle fille (good-looking girl). (various references) | |
Greek | όμορφος (beautiful), ωραίος (fine, gorgeous, nice). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jóképű (bonnie, bonny, easy on the eye, easy to look at, handsome, have good looks). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ganteng (bold, coagulated, congealed, dashing, handsome, sharp-looking), tampan (dashing, handsome, sharp-looking), rupawan (personable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 見目麗しい (beautiful, fair), 見目良い , 格好のいい (attractive, stylish), 格好いい (attractive, stylish), グアノシン三燐酸 (good, good design mark, good idea, good looks, Good luck, good timing, good will, goods, Goodyear, GTP, Guam, guanosine triphosphate, guava, Gucci, guppy, promotional items). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっこうのいい (attractive, stylish), かっこういい (attractive, stylish), かっこいい (attractive, stylish), グッドルッキング , みめうるわしい (beautiful, fair), みめよい. (various references) | |
Manx | stoamey (curvaceous, dashing, fair, gorgeous, graceful, large-breasted, personable, shapely, well-formed, well-formed person, well-proportioned). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ood-lookinggay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | charmoso (charmer, charming), bonito (beautiful, dinky, fetching, fine, good, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty), bem parecido, belo (beauteous, beautiful, fine, gallant, handsome, lovely, sightly). (various references) | |
Russian | красивый (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dishy, fine, flavorful, gallant, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, personable, pulchritudinous, sightly, well favored, well-favoured). (various references) | |
Swedish | stilig (classy, dressy, elegant, fine, good, good looking, sharp, stylish), snygg (clean, clean-limbed, dishy, fine, good, good looking, handsome, neat, nice, precious, tidy, trim), fager (beauteous, fair, fine, good looking). (various references) | |
Thai | มีหน้าตาดี. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có vẻ phúc hậu, đẹp trai có vẻ tốt, đẹp (bonny, charming, comely, gainly, goodly, natty, picturesque, splendid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai wsper ek tou potamou anebainon epta boeV kalai tw eidei kai eklektai taiV sarxin kai enemonto en tw acei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et septem boves de amne conscendere pulchras nimis et obesis carnibus quae in pastu paludis virecta carpebant |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And seuen oxen fro the flood togideres steyden vp, ful greetli fayr and thury oute with fatt fleish, the whiche in the pasture of mershe the grene leswis cheseden; and loo! thes folweden other seuen oxen, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Vij fatt fleshed ad well fauored kyne and fedd in the medowe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And behold, there came out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed, and well-favored; and they fed in a meadow: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug ania karon, misaka gikan sa suba ang pito ka vaca nga matambok ug unod ug maanindot sa panagway, ug sila nanagsibsib sa kabugangan. |
| Croatian | I gle! Iz Nila iziðe sedam debelih i lijepih krava. Pasle su po šašu. |
| Danish | og se, op af Floden steg der syv fede og smukke Køer, som gav sig til at græsse i Engen; |
| Dutch | En zie, uit de rivier kwamen op zeven koeien, vet van vlees en schoon van gedaante, en zij weidden in het gras. |
| Finnish | Ja katso, virrasta nousi seitsemän lihavaa ja kaunista lehmää, jotka kävivät laitumella kaislikossa. |
| French | Et voici, sept vaches grasses de chair et belles d`apparence montèrent hors du fleuve, et se mirent à paître dans la prairie. |
| German | und sah aus dem Wasser steigen sieben schöne, fette Kühe; die gingen auf der Weide im Grase. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu keluarlah dari sungai itu tujuh sapi yang gemuk-gemuk dan berkulit mengkilap, lalu mulai makan rumput di tepi sungai itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | heran, maka naiklah dari dalam sungai itu tujuh ekor lembu yang tambun lagi elok rupanya, lalu mencahari makan dalam rumput. |
| Italian | Quand'ecco salirono dal Nilo sette vacche grasse e belle di forma e si misero a pascolare tra i giunchi. |
| Maori | Na, ka puta ake i te awa nga kau e whitu, he mea whai kiko, he ahua pai; a ka kai ratou i roto i nga wiwi: |
| Norwegian | Og se, av elven steg det op syv kyr, fete og vakre av skikkelse, og de gikk og beitet i elvegresset. |
| Portuguese | E eis que subiam do rio sete vacas gordas de carne e formosas à vista, e pastavam no prado. |
| Rumanian | Wi deodatq wapte vaci grase la trup wi frumoase la chip s`au suit din rku, wi au knceput sq pascq prin mlawtini. |
| Russian | Й ЧПФ, ЧЩЫМЙ ЙЪ ТЕЛЙ УЕНШ ЛПТПЧ ФХЮОЩИ РМПФША Й ИПТПЫЙИ ЧЙДПН Й РБУМЙУШ Ч ФТПУФОЙЛЕ; |
| Spanish | Y he aquí que del Nilo salían siete vacas gordas de carne y de hermoso aspecto, y pacían entre los juncos. |
| Swedish | Och jag såg sju kor stiga upp ur floden, feta och vackra, och de betade i vassen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "good-looking" (pronounced 'Good"-look`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming, Home-dwelling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-i-k-l-n-o-o-o-o" | |
-4 letters: godling, lodging, looking. | |
-5 letters: doling, gigolo, gingko, ginkgo, googol, koodoo, logion, looing, ogling, oolong. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Bible Trace 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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