goodly

Questions about goodly

What is another word for goodly?

It depends which goodly you mean. In the sense “large in amount or extent or degree”, the synonyms are goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of goodly?

WordNet records no antonym for goodly. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for goodly come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of goodly

• Full entry for goodlyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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