The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goodly \Good"ly\, a. [Compar. Goodlier; superl. Goodliest.]
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Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.
We have many goodly days to see.
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Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.
The goodliest man of men since born.
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Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.
Goodly and great he sails behind his link.
--Dryden.
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a. (en-superlativegoodly)
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Usage examples of "goodliest".
That is marvel, said the king, that thou knowest not thy name, and thou art the goodliest young man that ever I saw.
Notwithstanding, Sir Tristram would not refuse the message for no danger nor peril that might fall, for the pleasure of his uncle, but to go he made him ready in the most goodliest wise that might be devised.
For Sir Tristram took with him the most goodliest knights that he might find in the court.
And then privily he wrote unto her letters and ballads of the most goodliest that were used in those days.
Sir, said the hermit, here is fast by my place the goodliest man that ever I saw, and he is sore wounded with a boar, and yet he hath slain the boar.
So God me help, said the queen, of your father ye need not to shame you, for he is the goodliest knight, and of the best men of the world come, and of the strain, of all parties, of kings.
And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights.
All men know also that when good Ethelwald died he made me swear to him that I would wed his daughter to the mightiest and goodliest and fairest man that was in the land.