well-favoured

Questions about well-favoured

What does well-favoured mean?

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

How many syllables are in well-favoured?

well-favoured has 3 syllables: well--favou-red. The stress falls on "well-".

What is another word for well-favoured?

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

well-favoured 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.