'Goodly' definitions:
Definition of 'goodly'
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Definition of 'Goodly'
From: GCIDE
- Goodly \Good"ly\, adv. Excellently. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Goodly'
From: GCIDE
- Goodly \Good"ly\, a. [Compar. Goodlier; superl. Goodliest.] [OE. godlich, AS. g[=o]dlic. See Good, and Like.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. [1913 Webster]
- We have many goodly days to see. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses. [1913 Webster]
- The goodliest man of men since born. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. [1913 Webster]
- Goodly and great he sails behind his link. --Dryden. Goodlyhead
Synonyms of 'goodly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageous,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- ample,
- amply endowed,
- auspicious,
- becoming,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- big,
- blissful,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- built,
- built for comfort,
- bumper,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- capital,
- cheerful,
- cogent,
- comely,
- commendable,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- cordial,
- curvaceous,
- curvy,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- elegant,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- famous,
- favorable,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- genial,
- goddess-like,
- good,
- good-looking,
- gracious,
- grand,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- great,
- harmonious,
- healthy,
- heart-warming,
- helpful,
- honeyed,
- Junoesque,
- kind,
- large,
- large-scale,
- laudable,
- likable,
- likely,
- lovely to behold,
- man-sized,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- nice,
- noble,
- numerous,
- personable,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- pneumatic,
- presentable,
- profitable,
- regal,
- rewarding,
- royal,
- satisfying,
- shapely,
- sightly,
- significant,
- sizable,
- sizeable,
- skillful,
- slender,
- sound,
- splendid,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- substantial,
- sweet,
- tall,
- tidy,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- welcome,
- well-built,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked
Words containing 'Goodly'
- As good as,
- For good,
- For good and all,
- Good,
- Good now,
- Good will,
- Gooding,
- Goodness,
- Goods,
- do good,
- good and,
- good for,
- good for you,
- no good,
- A good landfall,
- A good leg,
- Bonded goods,
- By good rights,
- Canned goods,
- Confusion of goods,
- Consumer's goods,
- Dress goods,
- Dry goods,
- During good behavior,
- Fancy goods,
- Fine goods,
- Free goods,
- Good Friday,
- Good Hope,
- Good Thunder,
- Good breeding,
- Good cheap,
- Good consideration,
- Good fellow,
- Good fellowship,
- Good folk,
- Good for nothing,
- Good form,
- Good graces,
- Good humor,
- Good liver,
- Good morrow,
- Good nature,
- Good people,
- Good speed,
- Good turn,
- Good word,
- Good-by,
- Gooding County,
- Gooding, ID,
- Goodings Grove,
- Goods engine,
- Goods train,
- Goods wagon,
- In good case,
- In good faith,
- In good heart,
- In good part,
- In good time,
- Piece goods,
- Printed goods,
- Producer's goods,
- Steelbow goods,
- To hold good,
- To make good,
- To think good,
- Wet goods,
- With a good grace,
- a good deal,
- auxiliary goods,
- baked goods,
- bill of goods,
- common good,
- consumer goods,
- consumption goods,
- deliver the goods,
- durable goods,
- for good measure,
- get the goods,
- good Samaritan,
- good afternoon,
- good authority,
- good book,
- good bye,
- good chance,
- good cholesterol,
- good continuation,
- good day,
- good deal,
- good deed,
- good egg,
- good enough,
- good example,
- good faith,
- good fortune,
- good guy,
- good health,
- good humored,
- good humour,
- good looking,
- good looks,
- good luck,
- good manners,
- good morning,
- good night,
- good part,
- good person,
- good sense,
- good shape,
- good shepherd,
- good speller,
- good spirit,
- good story,
- good taste,
- good temper,
- good time,
- good times,
- good vibrations,
- good weather,
- goodly trees,
- goodness of god,
- green goods,
- hard goods,
- have a good time,
- hold good,
- in good order,
- in good spirits,
- in good taste,
- instrumental goods,
- intermediate goods,
- make good,
- no-good,
- or Good people,
- packaged goods,
- soft goods,
- sporting goods,
- stolen goods,
- tinned goods,
- trade good,
- white goods,
- works good,
- worldly good,
- worldly goods,
- yard goods,
- Good Hope, AL,
- Good Hope, GA,
- Good Hope, IL,
- Good King Henry,
- Good Thunder, MN,
- Good humor man,
- Good-bye,
- Good-den,
- Good-fellowship,
- Good-humor,
- Good-humored,
- Good-humoredly,
- Good-looking,
- Good-nature,
- Good-natured,
- Good-naturedly,
- Good-tempered,
- Good-year,
- Gooding County, ID,
- Goodings Grove, IL,
- To keep good hours,
- To levy on goods and chattels,
- To make a good board,
- To make good weather,
- To turn one's goods,
- cape of good hope,
- good luck charm,
- good ol' boy,
- good old boy,
- good old days,
- good ole boy,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- good-hearted,
- good-humoredness,
- good-humoured,
- good-humouredness,
- good-naturedness,
- good-neighborliness,
- good-neighbourliness,
- good-temperedness,
- good-time,
- goods of the first order,
- honest-to-goodness,
- kiss good bye,
- use of goods and services,
- To be upon one's good behavior,
- cape of good hope province,
- good-king-henry,
- goods of the second and higher orders,
- tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
- To be put upon one's good behavior,
- equable even-tempered good-tempered placid