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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
good-looking
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ He was really very good-looking, she decided.
▪ He was also tall and very good-looking.
▪ He was a very beautiful young man, a bit like a girl, perhaps - but still very good-looking.
▪ Such buds containing re-aggregated cells do not develop normally but they can form jointed cartilage elements and sometimes very good-looking digit-like structures.
▪ Edward seemed quite grown up, quiet and interesting - and very good-looking instead of pretty like his baby brother!
▪ He's three years older than us, and very good-looking.
▪ Still, he was very good-looking and not being dressed as a clergyman might be quite an asset to their party.
▪ Laidler was a tall, very good-looking man, quiet and observant, who remained cheerful in spite of his illness.
■ NOUN
man
▪ Carver, a good-looking man women fell over to meet, kept silent.
▪ She did not know the Rifleman well, yet she thought he was by far the best-looking man on the Prince's staff.
▪ He's a good-looking man, and the smile just happens to be part of the job.
▪ Clare wondered suspiciously why this sensationally good-looking man seemed not to have any New Year's plans.
▪ Nor could they understand a young, good-looking man who appeared to have no interest in girls.
▪ Laidler was a tall, very good-looking man, quiet and observant, who remained cheerful in spite of his illness.
▪ He was a good-looking man, if a little florid, and an officer of the old school.
▪ Standing beside Dennis was the best-looking man she had ever seen in her life.
woman
▪ Bragg's knock was answered by a good-looking woman in her early thirties.
▪ A man contemplating an affair should not restrict himself to what he considers a good-looking woman, yet he usually does.
▪ Claire was a very good-looking woman, Harvey considered, watching her pour a drink and sit down opposite to him.
▪ He opened the door and smiled because a good-looking woman was arriving to keep a date.
▪ She was still a good-looking woman, slack-breasted or not.
▪ Mercy Newbegin was a good-looking woman who looked even better in the light of the flickering candles.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good-looking young woman in a business suit came into the room.
▪ Don't you think Dave is good-looking?
▪ Ginny was tall and good-looking.
▪ Paul is very good-looking, but he's too arrogant.
▪ She seems to get better-looking the older she gets.
▪ She showed me a photo of a good-looking young soldier.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He's quite good-looking in a film-starry way - I'd always thought of him as young.
▪ He was really very good-looking, she decided.
▪ Lanikai is a community of wealthy, preposterously fit, good-looking people who seem to be constantly in motion.
▪ Manning Jackson was forty-five years old, and was good-looking in a heavy, sporting way.
▪ One good-looking waiter fillets the fish.
▪ She knew that they dressed the good-looking ones purposely like that.
▪ She was under five feet five inches tall, but strikingly good-looking, with dark hair and eyes and vivacious manners.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Good-looking

Good-looking \Good"-look`ing\, a. Handsome; fine-looking; as, a good-looking man.

Syn: fine-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured.

Wiktionary
good-looking

a. physically attractive (gloss: of a person)

WordNet
good-looking

adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman [syn: fine-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured]

Usage examples of "good-looking".

The good-looking woman in her late twenties was on the scene in an instant, apologizing to Hel and admonishing the child all at the same time.

It was from what they had both said--unluckily their accounts materially differed--that that official description of The Avenger had been worked up--that which described him as being a good-looking, respectable young fellow of twenty-eight, carrying a newspaper parcel.

Next them was a young lady whom he did not at first think so good-looking as she proved later to be, though she had at once a pretty nose, with a slight upward slant at the point, long eyes under fallen lashes, a straight forehead, not too high, and a mouth which perhaps the exigencies of breakfasting did not allow all its characteristic charm.

Rose has turned down many a good-looking young cuss who dropped by to see if she needed anything from town.

He was Lycon, the youngest of the ephors, a good-looking youth in his mid-twenties, dark-haired and dark-eyed.

I was much pleased with the marchioness, who had three daughters and two sons, all good-looking and well bred.

Cooper, a good-looking, middle-aged woman with a hennish bosom and brassy blonde hair, had made little effort to make the interior of the hut bright and cheerful.

Mr Kennet, besides being a good-looking man, had more than his share of male charm.

A good-looking young man, who likewise took lessons, was courting her, and I soon perceived that she loved him.

The dear general was well advanced in years, far from good-looking, and as his mental qualities by no means compensated for his lack of physical ones he was by no means an object to inspire love.

But the horses they led were only coverhacks: good-looking prads, but nothing marvellous, and no more than two of them.

Unlike Jervas Gil, who had been so ordinary in his appearance as to be effectively invisible most of the time, Rosel Quetaya was trim and strikingly good-looking, with ivory skin and glossy black curls.

All of the Sween children were good-looking kids, but one of the seven was retarded, and five of the other six were more dumb-witted than not.

Toy was also tall, as tall as her brother, Teez, and they made a good-looking couple together.

It was for him alone that they both lived and toiled, the one still a fine, good-looking woman at forty years of age, the other yet girlish at thirty.