Comely

/ˈkʌmli/ · adjective

Meaning

Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking..

Definitions by Sense

1. Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
2. (obsolete) Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice, pleasant.
3. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To embellish or grace (something).
4. (archaic) Synonym of comelily (“in a comely manner: in an attractive or pleasing manner; in a manner which meets accepted moral or social norms”).

Example Sentences

Oh hovv comely it is and hovv reviving / To the Spirits of juſt men long oppreſt! / VVhen God into the hands of thir deliverer / Puts invincible might

[T]hey said many kind and comely things about the people they had met.

One diligent seruiture, skilfull to waight, / more comelieth thy table than other some eight, / That stand for to listen, or gasing about, / not minding their dutie, within nor without.

So ſlides he dovvne vppon his greyned bat [i.e., a walking stick]; / And comely diſtant ſits he by her ſide, […]

T'is very good to vvaſh his hands and face often, to haue faire linnen about him, to be decently and comely attired, for ſordes vitiant, naſtineſſe defiles, & deiects any man that is ſo voluntarily, or compelled by vvant, it dulleth the ſpirits.

So may men praiſe their Preacher, he ſpeaks pertinently, or he contrives vvittily, or he ſpeaks comely, […]

Synonyms for comely

Antonyms for comely

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Word Forms

• comelier
• more comely
• comeliest
• most comely
• comly
• cumlie
• comelies
• comelying
• comelied

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