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good-looking

adj
/ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from lōcian — “to look”
  2. inherited from lōciende
  3. inherited from lokynge
  4. compounded as good-looking — “good + looking”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at good-looking. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01good-looking02physically03force04exercising05exercise06setting07gem08beauty

A definitional loop anchored at good-looking. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at good-looking

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA