good-looking

good-look·ing
/ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/

adjective

Physically attractive (of a person).

Meanings

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

comparative more good-looking · comparative better-looking · superlative most good-looking · superlative best-looking · alternative goodlooking · alternative good looking

  1. Physically attractive (of a person).

    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.

    2001, Julia DeVillers, Teen Girlfriends
    1 more example

    The princesses were, it is true, sufficiently good-looking, yet neither their persons nor their garments had that appearance of freshness and cleanliness without which no other charms can be contemplated with pleasure. Everything had a dingy and faded appearance, very disagreeable and unroyal to a European eye.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 343

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

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivePhysically attractive (of a person).

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivepleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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

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Translations

Arabic حَسَنُ الْمَظْهَرِ, وَسِيم
  • حَسَنُ الْمَظْهَرِ (ḥasanu l-maẓhari)attractive
  • وَسِيم (wasīm)attractive
  • جَمِيل (jamīl)attractive
Bulgarian ху́бав, краси́в
  • ху́бав (húbav)attractive
  • краси́в (krasív)attractive
  • го́тин (gótin)attractive
Chinese Mandarin 好看
  • 好看 (hǎokàn)attractive
Danish smuk
  • smukattractive
Esperanto bela
  • belaattractive
Finnish hyvännäköinen
  • hyvännäköinenattractive
French beau, joli
  • beauattractive
  • joliattractive
  • sympathiqueattractive
  • sympaattractive
German gutaussehend, hübsch
  • gutaussehendattractive
  • hübschattractive
  • schönattractive
  • attraktivattractive
Indonesian atraktif, keren
  • atraktifattractive
  • kerenattractive
  • menarikattractive
Irish dathúil, dóighiúil
  • dathúilattractive
  • dóighiúilattractive
  • gnaíúilattractive
  • slachtmharattractive
Japanese かっこいい
  • かっこいい (kakkoii)attractive
Korean 멋있다
  • 멋있다 (meositda)attractive
Latin formōsus
  • formōsusattractive
Latvian glīts
  • glītsattractive
Persian خوشچهره, خوشقیافه
  • خوشچهره (xoš-čehre)attractive
  • خوشقیافه (xoš-qiyâfe)attractive
Polish przystojny, urodziwy
  • przystojnyattractive
  • urodziwyattractive
  • atrakcyjnyattractive
Portuguese bem-afeiçoado, bem-apessoado
  • bem-afeiçoadoattractive
  • bem-apessoadoattractive
  • bem-parecidoattractive
Russian привлека́тельный, симпати́чный
  • привлека́тельный (privlekátelʹnyj)attractive
  • симпати́чный (simpatíčnyj)attractive
  • хоро́шенький (xoróšenʹkij)attractive
Spanish de buen ver, apuesto
  • de buen verattractive
  • apuestoattractive
  • bien parecidoattractive
  • galanoattractive
Swedish snygg
  • snyggattractive
Vietnamese đẹp
  • đẹpattractive
Welsh glandeg
  • glandegattractive
Cite this entry
APA

good-looking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/good-looking

MLA

“good-looking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/good-looking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “good-looking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/good-looking.

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