goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy
(adjective) large in amount or extent or degree; āit cost a considerable amountā; āa goodly amountā; āreceived a hefty bonusā; āa respectable sumā; āa tidy sum of moneyā; āa sizable fortuneā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)
(dated) Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable.
Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough.
goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)
(obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
(dialectal or obsolete) Well; excellently.
Source: Wiktionary
Good"ly, adv.
Definition: Excellently. [Obs.] Spenser.
Good"ly, a. [Compar. Goodlier; superl. Goodliest.] Etym: [OE. godlich, AS. g. See Good, and Like.]
1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. We have many goodly days to see. Shak.
2. Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses. The goodliest man of men since born. Milton.
3. Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. Goodly and great he sails behind his link. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; āthe thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; āLet them eat cakeāā
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
