fine-looking
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Pleasing in appearance: Describes someone or something that is attractive or good-looking, often by conforming to conventional standards of beauty, form, or proportion.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She is a fine-looking woman with elegant features.
- They bought a fine-looking antique table for the dining room.
- The actor was not only talented but also remarkably fine-looking.
Advanced Usage
- Comparative and Superlative Forms: "finer-looking", "finest-looking".
- After his makeover, he was the finest-looking man at the party.
- Used to describe objects, animals, or places in addition to people, implying an admirable and pleasing appearance.
- The estate is centered around a fine-looking manor house.
Variants and Related Words
- Good-looking (adj): Very similar in meaning, commonly used for people.
- Well-favored (adj): (Archaic or formal) Having a pleasing appearance.
- Attractive (adj): Pleasing to the senses or mind; a broader term than "fine-looking".
Synonyms
- Handsome: Often used for men or things with a dignified, impressive beauty.
- Pretty: Pleasing or attractive in a delicate or graceful way, often used for women, girls, or things.
- Comely: (Slightly old-fashioned) Pleasant to look at; attractive.
Antonyms
- Plain: Not beautiful or attractive.
- Unattractive: Not pleasing to look at.
- Homely: (Mainly North American) Simple but cozy; (British) not attractive in appearance.
Adjective
- pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
- a fine-looking woman
- a good-looking man
- better-looking than her sister
- very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome- Thackeray
- our southern women are well-favored- Lillian Hellman