well-favored

Questions about well-favored

What does well-favored mean?

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

How many syllables are in well-favored?

well-favored has 3 syllables and divides as well--favo-red 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 well-favored?

Close synonyms include fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, 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 well-favored a common word?

well-favored is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.