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- goodly From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English good‧ly /ˈɡʊdli/ adjective [only before noun] 1 → a goodly number/sum/amount etc 2 old use pleasant in appearance or good in quality Examples from the Corpus goodly • Small Dave had spent a goodly amount of time impressing upon him the importance of finding a camel.
/ˈɡʊdli/ GUUD-lee. See pronunciation. Where does the adjective goodly come from? Earliest known use. Old English. The earliest known use of the adjective goodly is in the Old English period (pre-1150). goodly is a word inherited from Germanic. See etymology. Nearby entries. good liver, n. a1450–. good-living, adj. 1493–. good-looker, n. 1801–.
The meaning of GOODLY is pleasantly attractive. How to use goodly in a sentence.
Origin & history I. From Middle English goodly, goodlich, gōdlich, from Old English gōdlīċ ("good, goodly"), from Proto-Germanic *gōdalīkaz ("good, goodly"), equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with German gütlich ("friendly"), Icelandic góðlegur ("benign").
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.
Definition of goodly adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
“Goodly” is an adjective, not an adverb, and has two different meanings, both of which are rather formal or archaic. The only meaning that is still used today to a certain extent is “quite large in number or quantity”, as in
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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.
