comely
Adjective Satellite
- according with custom or propriety
- "comely behavior"
- very pleasing to the eye
- "a comely face"
Adj
- Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
- Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
- Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
- Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.
- Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
- Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.
- Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice, pleasant.
Verb
- To embellish or grace (something).
Adv
- Synonym of comelily (“in a comely manner: in an attractive or pleasing manner; in a manner which meets accepted moral or social norms”).
Adjective
- Pleasant to look at; attractive.
Examples
- a comely woman
- The arrangement of letters formed a COMELY word, pleasing to the eye and high-scoring.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English comly, comli, cumly, cumlich (“of a person: beautiful, handsome, etc.; of noble birth, bearing, or character; of behaviour: appropriate, becoming; of an event: convenient; favourable; of a thing: beautiful, wonderful; fitting, proper”), from Old English cymlīċ, cȳmlīċ (“beautiful, comely; splendid; convenient”), from cȳme (“beautiful, comely; splendid; exquisite, fine”) + -līċ (suffix meaning ‘like; relating to’ forming adjectives). Cȳme is derived from Proto-Germanic *kūmiz (“delicate; feeble”), from *kūmalīkaz (“dear; pitiful”), probably related to *kūmaz, *kūmijaz (“pitiful; frail, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, name; to call on, invoke; to cry, cry out”). The word was influenced by come (verb).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
Middle Dutch komelick, komlick
Middle High German gomelīh, komelīh
Synonyms
becoming, bonnie, bonny, comme il faut, decent, decorous, fair, seemly, sightly, acceptable, agreeable, amiable, apposite, appropriate, apt, attractive, beauteous, beautifool, beautiful, beautimous, bona vardering, breathtaking, captivating, charming, comelily, comely, commensurate, correct, cute, esculent, expedient, exquisite, felicitous, fetching, fine-looking, fit, fit for purpose, fitting, gainand, good enough to eat, good-looking, gratifying, handsome, idoneous, in line, knockout, likely, lovely, lovesome, lustrious, meet, nice, nice-looking, opportune, personable, physically attractive, pleasant, pleasing, prettiful, pretty, proper, pulchritudinous, right, sensible, shapely, sheen, sortable, stunning, suitable, swanlike, tidy, up to standard, welcome, well-favoured, winsome
Antonyms
attractive, beautiful, comely, good-looking, handsome, homely, improper, inappropriate, nice, pleasant, pretty, suitable, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly
Scrabble Score: 13
comely: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcomely: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
comely: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary