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great or large: The audience was of a goodly size. Synonyms. healthy. hefty. respectable. sizeable mainlyUK. tidy mainly UK. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount. big They live in a big house in the country. large A large number of people were crowded into the room.
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great or large: The audience was of a goodly size. Synonyms....
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The meaning of GOODLY is pleasantly attractive. How to use goodly in a sentence.
great or large: The audience was of a goodly size. Synonyms. healthy. hefty. respectable. sizeable mainlyUK. tidy mainly UK. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount. big They live in a big house in the country. large A large number of people were crowded into the room.
Goodly comes from an Old English root word, godlic, "excellent, good, or fair." Definitions of goodly. adjective. large in amount or extent or degree. “a goodly amount”. synonyms: goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy. considerable.
goodly. (gʊdli ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A goodly amount or part of something is a fairly large amount or part of it, often more than was expected. [formal] The Central Intelligence Agency employed a goodly number of expert professionals in this particular field.
What does the adjective goodly mean? There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective goodly , three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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(archaic) Quite large; considerable: a goodly sum. Wiktionary. Synonyms: sizable. tidy. respectable. sizeable. hefty. healthy. goodish. largish. biggish. adverb. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix.
