goodly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable. dated
    — Her goodly thighs, whoſe glory did appear, / Like a triumphal Arch,[…]
  2. Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough.
    — a goodly sum of money
副词 adv.
  1. In a goodly way; courteously, graciously. obsolete
    — Thenne he sente for the thre knyghtes & they came afore hym / and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them / and they forgaf hit hym goodely and he dyed anone
    Then he sent for the three knights and they came before him, and he pleaded with them to have mercy for what he had done to them, and they graciously forgave him for it and he died soon after.
  2. Well; excellently. dialectal,obsolete
    — For love of vertue and of martial praise; To which though nobly ye inclined are, (As goodlie well ye shew'd in late assaies)

词形变化

goodlier comparative goodliest superlative goodlier comparative goodliest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
goodlihead goodlihood goodliness ungoodly

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *gadanąvṛd.
Proto-Germanic *gōdaz
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *gōdalīkaz
Proto-West Germanic *gōdalīk
Old English gōdlīċ
Middle English goodlich
English goodly
From Middle English goodly, goodlich, gōdlich, from Old English gōdlīċ (“good, goodly”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdalīk, from Proto-Germanic *gōdalīkaz (“good, goodly”); equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with Dutch goedelijk, goelijk (“harmless, benign”), German gütlich (“friendly”), Icelandic góðlegur (“benign”).
词源 2
From Middle English goodly, goodliche, gōdliche, from Old English gōdlīċe (“goodly”), from the adjective; equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with Middle High German guotlīche, güetlīche.
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