good-looking

See also: good looking

English

Alternative forms

• goodlooking, good looking

Etymology

From good +‎ looking. Compare Dutch goeduitziend (“good-looking”), German gutaussehend (“good-looking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: good-look‧ing

Adjective

good-looking (comparative better-looking or more good-looking, superlative best-looking or most good-looking)

1. Physically attractive (of a person).

   Synonyms: beautiful, handsome, hot, sexy, fine-looking

   • 2001, Julia DeVillers, Teen Girlfriends:

     When one of us sees a good-looking guy, we nudge the other one and smile. One guy had the most gorgeous face I had ever seen. Every time we go to the mall we look around for 'that guy' just in case.

Translations

attractive

• Arabic: حَسَنُ الْمَظْهَرِ (ḥasanu l-maẓhari), وَسِيم (ar) (wasīm), جَمِيل (ar) (jamīl)

  Egyptian Arabic: حلو m (ḥilw)

  Gulf Arabic: حلو m (ḥilu)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ху́бав (bg) (húbav), краси́в (bg) (krasív), го́тин m (gótin)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 媠 (zh-min-nan) (súi)

  Mandarin: 好看 (zh) (hǎokàn)

• Danish: smuk (da)
• Esperanto: bela (eo)
• Finnish: hyvännäköinen (fi)
• French: beau (fr), joli (fr), sympathique (fr), sympa (fr)
• Galician: ben parecido m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: gutaussehend (de), hübsch (de), schön (de), attraktiv (de)
• Haitian Creole: bèl
• Indonesian: atraktif (id), keren (id), menarik (id)
• Irish: dathúil, dóighiúil, gnaíúil, slachtmhar
• Japanese: かっこいい (kakkoii)
• Jarai: yâo
• Khmer: ល្អល្អះ (l’ɑɑ l’ah), ភ័ព្វរូប (pʰoap ruup), រូបសម្បន្ន (ruup sɑmpɑɑnnɔ)
• Korean: 멋있다 (ko) (meositda)
• Latin: formōsus
• Latvian: glīts
• Malayalam: സുമുഖൻ (ml) m (sumukhaṉ)
• Manx: stoamey
• Mongolian: үзэсгэлэн (mn) (üzesgelen)
• Navajo: bíiyis
• Persian: خوش‌چهره (xoš-čehre), خوش‌قیافه (xoš-qiyâfe)
• Plautdietsch: schmock
• Polish: przystojny (pl)
• Portuguese: bem-afeiçoado, bem-apessoado, bem-parecido
• Russian: привлека́тельный (ru) (privlekátelʹnyj), симпати́чный (ru) (simpatíčnyj), хоро́шенький (ru) (xoróšenʹkij) (colloquial)
• Spanish: atractivo (es), de buen ver (colloquial), apuesto (es), bien parecido, agraciado (es), lindo (es), gallardo (es), galano (es)
• Swedish: snygg (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đẹp (vi)
• Welsh: glandeg (cy)