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better-looking

better-looking is the comparative form of good-looking.

Meaning of good-looking

Adjective

good-looking (comparative more good-looking or better-looking, superlative most good-looking or best-looking)

  1. 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...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 343

Questions about better-looking

What is better-looking the comparative form of?
Better-looking is the comparative form of good-looking.

Words near better-looking in the dictionary

  1. better-intentioned
  2. better-kempt
  3. better-known
  4. better-learned
  5. better-lit
  6. better-looking
  7. better-loved
  8. better-mannered
  9. better-natured
  10. better-off
  11. better-organized

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