better-looking

Questions about better-looking

What does better-looking mean?

better-looking means "pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion".

How many syllables are in better-looking?

better-looking has 4 syllables and divides as bet-ter--loo-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for better-looking?

Close synonyms include fine-looking, good-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is better-looking a common word?

better-looking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.