good-looking
Syllables: good-look·ing/ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/
good-looking adjective: physically attractive (of a person).
Adjective
good-looking (comparative more good-looking or better-looking, superlative most good-looking or best-looking)
- 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
- When one of us sees a good-looking guy, we nudge the other one and smile. One guy had the most gorgeous face I had ever seen. Every time we go to the mall we look around for 'that guy' just in case.2001, Julia DeVillers, Teen Girlfriends
good-looking meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Punjabi
good-looking in Tamil
- பார்வைக்கு அழகான
good-looking in Marathi
- good-looking, beautiful, attractive
- देखणे dekhaṇe
- good-looking, handsome, attractive
- देखणा dekhaṇā
good-looking in Malayalam
- attractive
- സുമുഖൻ sumukhaṉ
good-looking in Punjabi
- good-looking, shapely, beautiful, handsome
- ਖੂਬਸੂਰਤ khūbsūrat
More languagesFewer languages
- good-looking in Arabic
- حَسَنُ الْمَظْهَرِ ḥasanu l-maẓhari, وَسِيم wasīm, جَمِيل jamīl
- good-looking in Indonesian
- atraktif, keren, menarik
- good-looking in Persian
- خوشچهره xoš-čehre, خوشقیافه xoš-qiyâfe
- good-looking in Vietnamese
- đẹp
Synonyms of good-looking
Forms of good-looking
| comparative | more good-looking |
|---|---|
| comparative | better-looking |
| superlative | most good-looking |
| superlative | best-looking |
| alternative form | goodlooking |
| alternative form | good looking |
Origin of good-looking
From good + looking. Compare Dutch goeduitziend (“good-looking”), German gutaussehend (“good-looking”).
Words formed from good-looking
- good-lookingly
- good-lookingness
Questions about good-looking
- What does good-looking mean?
- Good-looking means physically attractive (of a person).
- What is good-looking in Tamil?
- Good-looking in Tamil is பார்வைக்கு அழகான. See Good-looking meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is good-looking?
- Good-looking is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce good-looking?
- Good-looking is pronounced /ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/.
Words near good-looking in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: good-looking (page history and authors); good-looking (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); देखणा (Marathi) (page history and authors); ਖੂਬਸੂਰਤ (Punjabi) (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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