Goodly Definition

go͝odlē

goodlier, goodliest

adjective

goodlier, goodliest

Of attractive appearance; good-looking.

Webster's New World

Rather large; ample.

A goodly sum.

Webster's New World

Of good quality; fine.

Webster's New World

(archaic) Quite large; considerable: a goodly sum.

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adverb

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix.

Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].

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Other Word Forms of Goodly

Base Form:

goodly

Superlative:

From Middle English goodly, goodlich, gōdlich, from Old English gōdlīċ (“good, goodly”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdalīkaz (“good, goodly”), equivalent to good +‎ -ly. Cognate with German gütlich (“friendly”), Icelandic góðlegur (“benign”).

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From Middle English goodly, goodliche, gōdliche, from Old English gōdlīċe (“goodly”), from the adjective, equivalent to good +‎ -ly. Cognate with Middle High German guotlīche, güetlīche.

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