Sightly

Definition: Sightly

Sightly

Adjective

1. Visually appealing; "our fair city".

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

Date "sightly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

"Sightly" is a common misspelling or typo for: lightly, nightly, rightly, slightly, tightly.

Synonym: Sightly

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: Sightly

That's the house : a sightly place, but I like to turn in a mite higher above salt water when I'm ashore. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Albanian

tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, winsome), i pashëm (dashing, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable, proper, well favored, well-favoured). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممتع (delightful, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, good, gratifying, interesting, lovely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, what fun), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sweet), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, well favored, well-favoured), от където има хубав изглед, от който има хубав изглед, привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Czech

úhledný (neat, slick, tidy, tight). (various references)

French

intéressé, beau, agréable. (various references)

German

gut aussehend (handsome, nice-looking). (various references)

Greek 

εύμορφοσ (bonny, good looking, pretty, pulchritudinous, shapely, well favored), ευειδήσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

� עים (agreeable, likable, lovely, pleasant, soft, sweet), � א�" (comely, dwelling, fine, habitation, handsome, meadow, natty, nice, pasture, personable, pleasant, presentable, pretty, seemly). (various references)

Hungarian

tetszetõs (bijou, pleasing, showy, specious), csinos (bonnie, bonny, compt, crackajack, crackerjack, crummy, cunning, cute, dolly, easy on the eye, easy to look at, foxy, good looking, handsome, have good looks, natty, neat, nice-looking, nifty, personable, pretty, proper, seemly, she's got it, Spruce, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig). (various references)

Italian

bello (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, kind, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty, sheen, smart, well), avvenente (attractive, charming, comely). (various references)

Manx

daahoil (colourful, personable, picturesque, well-coloured). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightlysay.(various references)

Portuguese

encantador (alluring, attractive, bewitching, catchy, charmer, charming, delightful, enchanter, enchanting, fairy, fascinating, fine, glamorous, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magic, magical, pleasant, pretty, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome, witching), belo (beauteous, beautiful, fine, gallant, good-looking, handsome, lovely). (various references)

Romanian

vizibil (apparent, discernible, distinctly, in evidence, marked, noticeable, noticeably, observable, visible, visibly), plãcut la vedere (easy on the eye, specious), graţios (airily, daintily, flowing, graceful, gracefully, light, lightly, neat, thoroughbred, winning, winsome), gingaş (dainty, delicate, delicately, fastidious, fine, fragile, frail, gentle, mellow, nice, pernickety, squeamish, sweet, tender), evident (apparent, apparently, broad, clear, conspicuous, evident, explicit, it must be, manifestly, marked, nakedly, obvious, obviously, palpable, patent, patently, plain, prominent, visible). (various references)

Russian 

красивый (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dishy, fine, flavorful, gallant, good looking, good-looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, personable, pulchritudinous, well favored, well-favoured), видный (conspicuous, distinguished, drop-dead). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slobodan (footloose, free, indipendent, leisure, leisured, liberal, off, open, promiscuous, spare, through, unconstrained), viđen (prominent, well known), otvoren (above board, blunt, candid, downright, forthright, heart-to-heart, open, open-faced, openhearted, outdoor, outgoing, out-of-door, outspoken, overt, plain, plainspoken, through, unclosed, undisguised), naočit (gallant, personable, portly, viewy). (various references)

Spanish

agradable a la vista. (various references)

Swedish

vacker (beautiful, comely, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, pretty, sweet, tidy, winsome). (various references)

Thai

น่ามอง (nice-looking). (various references)

Turkish

yakışıklı (comely, good looking, handsome, personable, shapely, smart, stunner, well favored, well-favoured), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), göze hitap eden, dikkate değer (considerable, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, remarkable, worthy), bakmaya değer. (various references)

Ukrainian

гарний на вигляд, відкритий (barefaced, bleak, broad, defenceless, defenseless, obvious, open, opened, open-hearted, overt, patulous, public, unclosed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dễ trông; trông dễ thương, đẹp mắt (spectacular). (various references)

Welsh

golygus (comely, handsome). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "sightly": unsightly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lights, slight.

-2 letters: gilts, hilts, light, shily, sight, silty, styli.

-3 letters: ghis, gilt, gist, gits, hilt, hist, hits, list, lits, sigh, silt, sith, slit, syli, this, tils.

-4 letters: ghi, git, his, hit, its, lis, lit, shy, sit, sly, sty, thy, til, tis.

-5 letters: hi, is, it, li, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: skylight, slightly.

+2 letters: daylights, histology, skylights, sprightly, triglyphs, unsightly.

+3 letters: flyweights, playthings, scathingly, skylighted, soothingly, straightly, tigerishly.

+4 letters: hairstyling, holystoning, hydrologist, lightsomely, mythologies, mythologist, phycologist, playwrights, righteously, sightlessly, slightingly.

+5 letters: daylightings, distraughtly, farsightedly, hairstylings, hesitatingly, hydrologists, insightfully, mythologists, mythologizes, phycologists, physiologist, polygraphist, psychologist, shatteringly, sprightfully, weightlessly.