Get to know Comely better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like becoming or sightly.
Comely meaning
- Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
- Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
Synonyms of Comely
Using Comely
- The main meaning on this page is: Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking. | Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome. | Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
- Useful related words include: becoming, sightly, fair, bonnie.
- In the example corpus, comely often appears in combinations such as: comely enough.
Context around Comely
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Comely
- In this selection, "comely" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, miss, kumar, shape, enough, comice and queen stand out and add context to how "comely" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a comely and very and as the comely features and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "comely" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with comely
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her ears and chin are comely enough. (7 words)
A comely and very full beard covered his cheeks and chin. (11 words)
If not, a comely Comice pear can be cooked in a similar fashion and will take a quarter of the time. (21 words)
Amelia R. Brown points out that legislation under Justinian indicates that many of them came from the Caucasus, having light eyes, hair, and skin, as well as the “comely features and fine bodies” desired by slave traders. (37 words)
The man and the woman are co-workers—she’s a waitress at a diner; he’s a cook whose comely wrists have attracted her attention—but, in important ways, they’re strangers. (33 words)
By the time Gayatri (Apte), Lakshmikant Chauhan’s ( Kumar) comely new bride utters the word ‘sharm’ the nth time, her beautiful big eyes swimming, it’s coming out of our ears. (31 words)
Example sentences (8)
If not, a comely Comice pear can be cooked in a similar fashion and will take a quarter of the time.
He noted that Miss Comely Queen Nigeria is ranked among the top 10 pageants in Nigeria and among the top 15 pageants in Africa.
The man and the woman are co-workers—she’s a waitress at a diner; he’s a cook whose comely wrists have attracted her attention—but, in important ways, they’re strangers.
By the time Gayatri (Apte), Lakshmikant Chauhan’s ( Kumar) comely new bride utters the word ‘sharm’ the nth time, her beautiful big eyes swimming, it’s coming out of our ears.
A comely and very full beard covered his cheeks and chin.
Amelia R. Brown points out that legislation under Justinian indicates that many of them came from the Caucasus, having light eyes, hair, and skin, as well as the “comely features and fine bodies” desired by slave traders.
Her ears and chin are comely enough.
John Stow talked to old men who, remembering him, said "that he was of bodily shape comely enough, only of low stature" Buc, in White Kennett, Complete History of England, vol.
Common combinations with comely
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: