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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GOOD'LY, adv. Excellently.
GOOD'LY, a. Being of a handsome form; beautiful; graceful; as a goodly person; goodly raiment; goodly houses.
1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable; as goodly days.
2. Bulky; swelling; affectedly turgid.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" [syn: goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (goodlier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. pleasantly attractive 2. significantly large ; considerable <a goodly number>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (goodlier, goodliest) 1 comely, handsome. 2 of imposing size etc. Derivatives: goodliness n. Etymology: OE godlic (as GOOD, -LY(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Goodly Good"ly, adv. Excellently. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Goodly Good"ly, a. [Compar. Goodlier; superl. Goodliest.] [OE. godlich, AS. g?dlic. See Good, and Like.] 1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. We have many goodly days to see. --Shak. 2. Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses. The goodliest man of men since born. --Milton. 3. Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. Goodly and great he sails behind his link. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A goodly amount or part of something is a fairly large amount or part of it, often more than was expected. (FORMAL) Laski spent a goodly part of his lecturing life in American universities. = substantial ADJ: ADJ n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

good'-li Tobh; kalos, lampros): In the Old Testament various words are translated "goodly," the most of them occurring only once; Tobh (the common word for "good") is several times translated "goodly," chiefly in the sense of form or appearance e.g "a goodley child" (Ex 2:2); "that goodly mountain" (De 3:25); yapheh ("fair") is similarly translated in Ge 39:6, the Revised Version (British and American) "comely," and mar'oh in 2Sa 23:21. Other words, such as 'addir imply excellence, honor, etc., e.g. Eze 17:23, "bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar"; hodh, "his goodly horse" (Zec 10:3); others imply beauty, ornament, such as peer "goodly bonnets," the Revised Version (British and American) "headtires" (Ex 39:28); shaphar ("bright," "fair"), "a goodly heritage" (Ps 16:6); once 'El ("God of might") is employed, the Revised Version (British and American) "cedars of God," margin "goodly cedars" (Ps 80:10); renanim ("joyous soundings or shoutings") is translated in Job 39:13 "goodly wings," probably from the sound made in flying or flapping; the English Revised Version has "The wing of the ostrich rejoiceth," the American Standard Revised Version (wings) "wave proudly." For "goodly castles" (Nu 31:10) the Revised Version (British and American) has "encampments"; "goodly vessels" (2Ch 32:27) for "pleasant jewels"; "goodly" is substituted for "good" (Ps 45:1; So 1:3); "goodly things" for "all the goods" (Ge 24:10); "goodly frame," the American Standard Revised Version for "comely proportion" (Job 41:12).

In the New Testament kalos ("beautiful") is translated "goodly" in Mt 13:45, "goodly pearls" and Lu 21:5 "goodly stones"; lampros ("bright") in Jas 2:2, "goodly apparel," the Revised Version (British and American) "fine clothing," and Re 18:14, "dainty and goodly" the Revised Version (British and American) "dainty and sumptuous." In Heb 11:23, the Revised Version (British and American) ~bstitutes "goodly" for "proper."

"Goodly" occurs in Apocrypha, 1 Esdras 4:18; Judith 8:7 (horaios); 2 Macc 9:16, "goodly gifts," kallistos, the Revised Version (British and American) "goodliest."

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Beautiful, graceful, comely, goodlooking. 2. Pleasant, happy, agreeable, desirable. 3. Considerable, pretty large.

Moby Thesaurus

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