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well-favoured

well-favoured adjective: good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.

Adjective

well-favoured (comparative more well-favoured, superlative most well-favoured)

  1. (dated) Good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.
    • Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, & cryes, Do you see
      Yonder well favoured youth? Which? Oh, 'tis hee
      That dances so divinely; […]a. 1631, John Donne, Satire I
    • Children in whom was no blemish, but well fauoured, and skilfull in all wisedome, and cunning in knowledge, and vnderstanding science, […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 1:4
    Antonyms:
    ill-favored

Antonyms of well-favoured

Forms of well-favoured

comparativemore well-favoured
superlativemost well-favoured
alternative formwell-favored

Words formed from well-favoured

Questions about well-favoured

What does well-favoured mean?
Well-favoured means good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.
What part of speech is well-favoured?
Well-favoured is an adjective.

Words near well-favoured in the dictionary

  1. well-educated
  2. well-endowed
  3. well-equipped
  4. well-established
  5. well-favored
  6. well-favoured
  7. well-favouredly
  8. well-fed
  9. well-filled
  10. well-fitted
  11. well-fixed

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