FINE-LOOKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fine-looking mean? 

• FINE-LOOKING (adjective)
  The adjective FINE-LOOKING has 1 sense:

1. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion

  Familiarity information: FINE-LOOKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINE-LOOKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion

Synonyms:

better-looking; fine-looking; good-looking; handsome; well-favored; well-favoured

Context example:

our southern women are well-favored

Similar:

beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)

 Context examples 

At length she suddenly burst into tears, and said: He was a fine-looking man when I married him, Trot—and he was sadly changed!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She is a very fine-looking woman! and her calling here was prodigiously civil! for she only came, I suppose, to tell us the Collinses were well.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He is very tall: some people call him a fine-looking young man; but he has such thick lips.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She must admire him as a fine-looking man, with most gentlemanlike, dignified, consistent manners; but perhaps, having seen him so seldom, his reserve may be a little repulsive.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But he was a fine-looking man when I married him, said my aunt, with an echo of her old pride and admiration in her tone; and I believed him—I was a fool!—to be the soul of honour!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His manner was polite; his accent, in speaking, struck me as being somewhat unusual,—not precisely foreign, but still not altogether English: his age might be about Mr. Rochester's,—between thirty and forty; his complexion was singularly sallow: otherwise he was a fine-looking man, at first sight especially.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)