Meaning of COMELINESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'kumlines
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being good looking and attractive |
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| | Synonyms: | | beauteousness, fairness, loveliness |
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| | See Also: | | beauty | |
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| | Definition: | | \Come"li*ness\, n. [See {Comely}.]
The quality or state of being comely.
Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in
fit time and place. --Sir J.
Davies.
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit.
--Milton.
Comeliness signifies something less forcible than
beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than
prettiness. --Johnson.
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| | Related Terms: | | agreeability, agreeableness, appropriateness, Atticism, becomingness, bonniness, chasteness, chastity, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, correctness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy, fairness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, good taste, goodliness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, limpidity, lucidity, naturalness, neatness, pellucidity, personableness, perspicuity, plainness, pleasingness, polish, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, seemliness, sightliness, simplicity, smoothness, straightforwardness, taste, tastefulness, terseness, unaffectedness |
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