Meanings
comparative more good-looking · comparative better-looking · superlative most good-looking · superlative best-looking · alternative goodlooking · alternative good looking
- 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 Girlfriends1 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 343Synonyms: beautiful, handsome, hot, sexy, fine-looking, fetching
Synonyms & antonyms
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”).
Full word history & related roots →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
good-looking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/good-looking
“good-looking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/good-looking. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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