Goodly

English

Adjective

Goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (archaic) good, pleasing in appearance
   • Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Ballad of Death, lines 26-27

     O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her

     Was made a goodly thing

2. (archaic) Quite large; considerable: a goodly sum.

Adverb

Goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     Than he sente for the three knyghtes, and they cam afore hym; and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them, and they forgave hym goodly, and he dyed anone.

   • , II.ix:

     Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].

Thesaurus

Junoesque, 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, 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

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