Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: good-looking
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ʊdl,ʊkɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured
    Meaning: 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
Usage examples
  • "What a fine, good-looking officer and how kind.
  • William was nineteen years of age, brown color, smart and good-looking.
  • A good-looking woman answered his knock at the door, and he asked politely,
  • The foot soldier was a good-looking young man, who appeared to be of gentle birth.
  • Lucinda, the companion of James, was twenty-one years of age, good-looking, well-formed and of a brown color.
  • "He is an uncommonly good-looking young fellow; straight made, broad in the chest, with a good, honest eye, and a young man's proper courage.
  • But, good-looking as she was, he did not think her to be compared to my sister Janet, with whom he had evidently fallen in love at first sight and very deeply so, too!
  • Why, when he was only twelve he was quite sharp and quick, and had learnt many little things, and a good-looking boy too, and pleasant, so that customers were taken by him.
  • True, he was becoming well accustomed to this sort of thing, since the ladies of Muddleton were far more fond of seeking advice from the young and good-looking curate than from the elderly and experienced rector.
  • I remember; he died, poor fellow; he was a good soldier--and his'--I felt she was going to say 'his fool of a widow,' but a glance from me quelled her; 'his widow went and married that good-looking scapegrace, Jack Watts-Morgan.