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Comeliness is the quality of being pleasant to look at in a quiet, way — the attractiveness of a comely person. It is an old, noun. You are more likely to meet it in a story set in the past, or in a careful, slightly formal sentence, than in a café. It does not mean “sexy” or “glamorous.” It is closer to a wholesome, fitting prettiness, the kind older writers praised in a face or a figure. Though actually, even those older writers used it most about women; using it about a man is possible but rare and will sound even more old-fashioned. Students do not need this word to talk about beauty today — pretty, good-looking, beautiful will do — but they may need it to read.
清秀、標緻(文、舊;指端正好看,不是華麗或性感)
組成comely + -ness (the quality of being).
同家族的字
- comelythe adjective this noun is built from; comely means pleasant to look at in a seemly way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
comelinessnoun
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Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
- Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead[…]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。