Definition of Goodly

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Goodly

Excellently.

Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.

Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.

Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.

Related Definitions:

Agreeable, Appearance, As, Character, Comely, Considerable, Desirable, Excellently, Goodly, Graceful, Houses, Large, Number, Of, Or, Person, Pleasant, Pleasing, Portly, Raiment

Goodly Quotations

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
John Philip Sousa

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Edmund Spenser

Goodly Translations

goodly in Swedish is ansenlig, behaglig

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