good-looking

A2
US /ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/
adj Freq #5671

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Physically attractive (of a person).

    The princesses were, it is true, sufficiently good-looking, yet neither their persons nor their garments had that appearance of freshness and cleanliness without which no other charms can be contemplated with pleasure. Everything had a dingy and faded appearance, very disagreeable and unroyal to a European eye.

  2. 2
    adj

    pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion

Etymology

From good + looking. Compare Dutch goeduitziend (“good-looking”), German gutaussehend (“good-looking”).

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · physically attractive (of a... beautifulfetchingfine-lookinghandsomehotsexy
2 adj · pleasing in appearance... fine-looking

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