comeliness

/'kʌmlinis/

Thân thiện

A young woman's natural comeliness was evident in her warm smile.

Definition

Noun: 1. The quality of being good-looking and attractive; physical beauty. This refers to an appealing and pleasant appearance. 2. The quality of being agreeable and suitable; propriety. This is a more formal or archaic meaning referring to appropriateness in behavior or manner.

Examples of Usage

• Referring to physical attractiveness:
  • The comeliness of the landscape took my breath away.
  • Her comeliness was not just in her features, but in her graceful movements.
• Referring to propriety (less common):
  • The comeliness of his conduct was noted by all the elders.

Advanced Usage

• The word comeliness is more formal and less common in everyday modern speech than synonyms like "beauty" or "attractiveness." It often carries a slightly old-fashioned or literary tone.
• It can be used to describe both people and things (e.g., scenery, art).

Variants and Related Words

• Comely (adjective): Good-looking or attractive.
• Uncomely (adjective): Not attractive or not proper. (Archaic)

Synonyms

• Beauty: The most general synonym for a combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses.
• Attractiveness: The quality of being appealing or pleasing.
• Loveliness: A gentle and graceful beauty.
• Pulchritude: A formal, sometimes poetic, word for physical beauty.
• Prettiness: Pleasing and attractive in a delicate way.

Antonyms

• Plainness: Lack of beauty or distinction.
• Ugliness: The quality of being unpleasant or repulsive to look at.
• Unattractiveness: Lack of appeal.

Notes on Meaning

The primary and most frequent contemporary meaning of comeliness is the first one: physical attractiveness. The second meaning (propriety) is now rare and considered archaic. When encountered in modern texts, it almost always refers to aesthetic appeal.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the quality of being good looking and attractive

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fairness
• loveliness
• beauteousness