GOOD-LOOKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-looking mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-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 

“One was a very good-looking young man.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Before this boy, who was reputed to be a great scholar, and was very good-looking, and at least half-a-dozen years my senior, I was carried as before a magistrate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He spoke perfect English, was pleasing in his manners, and as good-looking a man as ever I saw in my life.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should be as ready to acknowledge his merits as any other man; but I hear of none, except what are merely personal; that he is well-grown and good-looking, with smooth, plausible manners.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I looked: I saw a woman attired like a well-dressed servant, matronly, yet still young; very good-looking, with black hair and eyes, and lively complexion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He was quite as good-looking as he had appeared at Lyme, his countenance improved by speaking, and his manners were so exactly what they ought to be, so polished, so easy, so particularly agreeable, that she could compare them in excellence to only one person's manners.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Presently the tune left off, and a good-looking young fellow came across the yard into the room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl—she is almost pretty today,” were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He could not be persuaded that so many good-looking houses as he saw around him, could not furnish numbers enough for such a meeting; and even when particulars were given and families described, he was still unwilling to admit that the inconvenience of such a mixture would be any thing, or that there would be the smallest difficulty in every body's returning into their proper place the next morning.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)