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good looking

good looking is the alternative spelling 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 good looking

What is good looking the alternative spelling of?
Good looking is the alternative spelling of good-looking.

Words near good looking in the dictionary

  1. good life
  2. good liking
  3. good lives
  4. good looker
  5. good lookers
  6. good looking
  7. good looks
  8. good Lord
  9. good loser
  10. good losers
  11. good luck

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