GOOD LOOKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good looks mean? 

• GOOD LOOKS (noun)
  The noun GOOD LOOKS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)

  Familiarity information: GOOD LOOKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD LOOKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

good looks; handsomeness

Hypernyms ("good looks" is a kind of...):

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

 Context examples 

I esteem her for her good sense, as much as I admire her for her good looks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Bessie had retained her quick temper as well as her light foot and good looks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To the former she was an interesting object, and he saw with pleasure the general elegance of her appearance, and her being in remarkably good looks.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yet Catherine was in very good looks, and had the company only seen her three years before, they would now have thought her exceedingly handsome.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In general she has been in very good health and very good looks since Michaelmas.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There were two men that loved her, and one that she loved, and you’ll smile when you look at this poor thing huddled before the fire, and hear me say that it was for my good looks that she loved me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She liked the 'Laurence boy' better than ever and took several good looks at him, so that she might describe him to the girls, for they had no brothers, very few male cousins, and boys were almost unknown creatures to them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Couldn't have done it! Is that YOUR knowledge of life? What is there that any woman couldn't do, that she shouldn't do—especially on the subject of another woman's good looks?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But Mrs. Rushworth's day of good looks will come; we have cards for her first party on the 28th.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)