COMELINESS, COMELY
ADJECTIVES
► AVENANT comely, handsome, comely, graceful; pleasant → 1340 obs.
► BEST-LIKE most comely, best-looking → 1889 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BONNY comely, pleasing to the sight; expressing homely beauty → L15 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► BRAWSOME comely, handsome; rather ‘braw’ → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CANNY comely, seemly, agreeable to the eyes or perception; good, worthy; very satisfactory → 1802 Sc.
► DECENT comely, handsome → 1600 obs.
► DECOIR ► DECORE comely, beautiful → 1500 Sc. obs.
► EYEABLE comely, pleasant to look at → 1889 Amer. dial. arch.
► FARRAND ► FARRANT comely, well-favoured, handsome → 1300 Sc. & N. Eng. obs.
► FARRANDLY ► FARRANTLY comely, handsome, good-looking → 1674 N. Eng. dial.
► FARRINKLY comely, good-looking; decent, clean, orderly → 1860 Eng. dial.
► FAVOURABLE comely, pleasing, agreeable, beautiful → 1398 obs.
► FEATURED comely, beautiful → 1567 obs.
► FEWSOME handsome, comely, shapely, neat → 1790 Eng. dial.
► GAINLY comely, good-looking → 1300 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GAINLY-LOOKING comely, good-looking; neatly dressed; said chiefly of females → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRADELY handsome, comely, good-looking; fine, splendid; healthy → 1860 Eng. dial.
► MACKLY comely, seemly, good-looking → 1721 Eng. dial.
► PERSONABLE having a well-formed body; well-made, handsome; good-looking, comely, presentable → 1430 chiefly literary usage
► PULCHRITUDINOUS comely, beautiful, graceful, or fine in any way; morally excellent → 1912 US
► SNOUT-FAIR comely, fair-faced, pretty, handsome, good-looking; in frequent use in the 16th and early 17th century, usually with some disparaging suggestion → 1530 obs.
► TALL comely, goodly, fair, handsome; elegant, fine → 1450 obs.
► TIDY comely, in good condition → 1776 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TISTY-TOSTY comely and plump; round like a ball → 1888 Eng. dial.
► VENUST comely in appearance; handsome, beautiful; elegant, graceful → 1513 obs.
► VIEWLY comely, sightly, good to look at, handsome → 1868 Eng. dial.
► VIEWLYSOME comely, sightly, good to look at, handsome → 1868 Eng. dial.
► VIEWSOME comely, handsome, pleasing to the eye → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► DECOR comeliness, beauty, ornament → 1656 obs.
► DECORUM comeliness; grace; beauty arising from fitness, or from absence of the incongruous → 1613 obs.
► FAVOUR comeliness; beauty; attractiveness; an attraction, charm → 1300 obs.
► FEATURE comeliness; good form or shape → 1594 obs.
► MAKEDOM comeliness; elegant form, shapeliness → 1470 Sc. obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BRINKIE a comely person of a lively disposition → 19C Sc.