goodly

Definition

  • adjective: large in size or amount
  • adjective: pleasantly attractive
  • synonyms: excellently, pleasant, agreeable

Examples

  • He lives a 'goodly' [='considerable'] distance from his family.

  • We expect a 'goodly' [='good'] number of people to show up.

  • a 'goodly' sum

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) of fortune that she sends you to prison hither? - Prison, my lord? - Denmark's a prison - Then is the world one - A goodly one... ...in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one of the worst - I think not so, my lord - Why then, 'tis none to you (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) ere I had ever seen that day, Horatio - How now, my lord, why look'st thou pale? - My father, methinks I see my father - Where? - In my mind's eye, Horatio I saw him once, he was a goodly king He was a man, take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again My lord, the queen your mother (..)
    2015 Hamlet