Definizione monolingua

goodly

goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (archaic) good, pleasing in appearance
   • Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Ballad of Death, lines 26-27

     O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her

     Was made a goodly thing

2. (archaic) Quite large; considerable: a goodly sum.

goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     Than he sente for the three knyghtes, and they cam afore hym; and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them, and they forgave hym goodly, and he dyed anone.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:

     Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].

Definizione dizionario goodly

ampio

bello

considerevole

Altri significati:

(archaic) Quite large; considerable: a goodly sum.

(obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.

(archaic) good, pleasing in appearance