GOODLY (goodlier, goodliest)

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Irregular inflected forms: goodlier    , goodliest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does goodly mean? 

• GOODLY (adjective)
  The adjective GOODLY has 1 sense:

1. large in amount or extent or degree

  Familiarity information: GOODLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOODLY (adjective)

Comparative: goodlier   
Superlative: goodliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large in amount or extent or degree

Synonyms:

goodish; goodly; healthy; hefty; respectable; sizable; sizeable; tidy

Context example:

a sizable fortune

Similar:

considerable (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree)

 Context examples 

Aye, it is a goodly and a proper life.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We may well say that 'our lot is cast in a goodly heritage.'

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Of these he was able to give a goodly list, but had little doubt that it would be largely extended when the place had been more thoroughly investigated.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I have read your diary that you have so goodly written for me, and which breathes out truth in every line.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So Hermann von Schmidt found it a goodly asset to have Martin for a brother-in-law, but in his heart of hearts he couldn't understand where it all came in.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Those who saw him go noted that he carried his bow, with a goodly supply of bone-barbed arrows, and that across his shoulder was his father's big hunting-spear.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The jaw, the chin, the brow rising to a goodly height and swelling heavily above the eyes,—these, while strong in themselves, unusually strong, seemed to speak an immense vigour or virility of spirit that lay behind and beyond and out of sight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange change, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It seems indeed to be a goodly service,” said the tooth-drawer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)