well-favoured

English

Alternative forms

well-favored

Adjective

well-favoured (comparative more well-favoured, superlative most well-favoured)

handsome; pleasing to the eye
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 1:4:
  Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured

Translations

handsome; pleasing to the eye

Bulgarian: краси́в (bg) (krasív), ху́бав (bg) (húbav)
Irish: dathúil

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for well-favoured under well-favored in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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