comeliness
comeliness noun: quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
Noun
comeliness (usually uncountable, plural comelinesses)
- Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
- Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all...1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar...
- Synonyms:
- pulchritude
comeliness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
comeliness in Tamil
- Quality of being comely; beauty
- அழகு aḻaku
comeliness in Urdu
- دلکشی, حسن, خوبصورتی, وجاہت
comeliness in Malayalam
- comeliness
- മാഴ māḻa
Synonyms of comeliness
Forms of comeliness
| plural | comelinesses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | comliness |
Origin of comeliness
From comely + -ness (“the quality of being”).
Questions about comeliness
- What does comeliness mean?
- Comeliness means quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
- What is comeliness in Tamil?
- Comeliness in Tamil is அழகு (aḻaku). See Comeliness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is comeliness?
- Comeliness is a noun.
- What is the plural of comeliness?
- The plural of comeliness is comelinesses.
Words near comeliness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comeliness (page history and authors); comeliness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മാഴ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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