Word.ws English Dictionary

farantly

farantly adjective: good-looking; respectable.

Adjective

farantly (comparative more farantly, superlative most farantly)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal, obsolete) Good-looking; respectable.
    • I wish her no harm, with her blushes of brass;
      But she may have six twins in three years,
      And corrupt every farantly neighbour she has,
      Setting them and their wives by the ears.1876, Ebenezer Elliott, “The Gipsy (XIV)”, in Edwin Elliott, editor, The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, volume 2, page 329
    • [in strong Lancashire-dialect pronunciation spelling]
      “‘An' if hoo doesno' come for that,
      There's lots on Bowman's Lea
      As farrantly an' good as hoo,
      Ut would be preawd o' thee.”1893, Benjamin Brierley, “Johnny an' Peggy”, in Spring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves, page 79

Adverb

farantly (comparative more farantly, superlative most farantly)

  1. (obsolete) In a respectable manner.
    • I remember hearing my mother say that her cousin, John Fell, married a young body fro' Egremont; and she had no way o' her ain, and never got into theirs, so there was nothing done farantly.1821, N.A., The Life of a Boy
    • The lancinations maugre all my epulotic appliances sphacelated — interrosseal and cervical inturgescence induced angina, followed by lethality; I contumulated him farantly in a litten .1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 38

Forms of farantly

Adjective
comparativemore farantly
superlativemost farantly
Adverb
comparativemore farantly
superlativemost farantly

Origin of farantly

From farrand + -ly.

Questions about farantly

What does farantly mean?
Farantly means good-looking; respectable.
What part of speech is farantly?
Farantly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near farantly in the dictionary

  1. farandole
  2. farandoles
  3. farang
  4. Farangis
  5. farangs
  6. farantly
  7. Faraone
  8. Faraones
  9. farari
  10. farariya
  11. farash

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: farantly (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “farantly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/farantly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.