pleasing to the eye

adjective

pleasant to look at; physically attractive

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Meanings

adjectivepleasing to the eye (comparative more pleasing to the eye, superlative most pleasing to the eye)

comparative more pleasing to the eye · superlative most pleasing to the eye

  1. pleasant to look at; physically attractive

    Compact strongly-built engines, with a capacity for hard work, they were, perhaps, not in the front rank of handsome locomotives, yet withal were pleasing to the eye.

    1958 July 29, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, pages 493, 495
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