| 单词 | goodly |
| 释义 | goodly (once / 709 pages) adj A goodly amount of something is plenty of it. If you bake a goodly number of brownies for a bake sale, there are more than enough. The adjective goodly can describe a large quantity and also a large size: "You described your house as tiny, but it's actually a goodly size!" You might bring home a goodly amount of spinach from the farmer's market, or take a new job that comes with a goodly increase in salary. Goodly comes from an Old English root word, godlic, "excellent, good, or fair." WORD FAMILYgoodly: goodlier, goodliest USAGE EXAMPLESAnd when the two researchers set traps containing the four chemicals out in the wild, they instantly attracted a goodly haul of Desmometopa. Economist(Oct 06, 2016) That’s a charmingly naive reaction because we understand that these characters are neither goodly nor beauteous, as she supposes. Washington Post(Oct 03, 2016) “It is the predilection for four-ball play which is in a goodly degree responsible for the decadence of amateur golf in Great Britain.” Golf Digest(Sep 27, 2016) adj large in amount or extent or degree a goodly amount Syn goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy considerable large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree |
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