Dictionary Definition
comely adj
1 according with custom or propriety; "her
becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for
a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial";
"seemly behavior" [syn: becoming, comme il
faut, decent,
decorous, seemly]
2 very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass";
"there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
[syn: bonny, bonnie, fair] [also: comeliest, comelier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- In the context of "of a person": Pleasing or attractive to the eye.
Translations
pleasing or attractive to the eye
- Dutch: bevallig
- German: hübsch (1), ansehnlich (1)
- Hungarian: kedves, kellemes, csinos
- Spanish: lindo
- Slango: cumly
Extensive Definition
Comely (foaled 1912) was an American
Thoroughbred
filly
racehorse.
Bred and raced by James Butler, owner of the Empire City
Race Track, her sire was Disguise who raced in England for
owner/breeder James R.
Keene and was the winner of the 1900 Jockey
Club Stakes and who also ran third in that year's Epsom Derby.
Both her grandsire and damsire were elected to the
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame.
Comely is best remembered for a remarkable
performance as a two-year-old when she defeated older male horses
to win the first running of the Fall
Highweight Handicap in 1914. The Comely
Stakes at Aqueduct
Racetrack in Queens, New York is
named in her honor.
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed,
appealing, appropriate, apt, attractive, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, befitting, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, civilized, clean, clean-cut, comme il faut,
conforming, correct, curvaceous, curvy, fair, felicitous, fit, fitting, goddess-like,
good-looking, goodly,
handsome, happy, inspired, just, likely, lovely, lovely to behold,
neat, nice, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, pretty, proper, pulchritudinous,
seemly, shapely, sightly, slender, stacked, statuesque, trim, well-built, well-chosen,
well-expressed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made,
well-proportioned, well-put, well-shaped, well-stacked, wholesome, winsome