Usually means: Attractive, pleasing in appearance, charming.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. comely: Merriam-Webster
  2. comely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comely: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comely: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comely, comely: Wordnik
  7. comely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comely: Wiktionary
  9. comely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comely: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Comely, comely: Dictionary.com
  13. comely: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Comely: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Comely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. comely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. comely: Rhymezone
  18. Comely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. comely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. comely: FreeDictionary.org
  21. comely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. comely: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. comely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comely: Legal dictionary

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  1. comely: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comely: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COMELY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comely: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See comelier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.
adjective:  Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
adjective:  Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.
adjective:  Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.
adjective:  (obsolete) Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice, pleasant.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To embellish or grace (something).
adverb:  (archaic) Synonym of comelily (“in a comely manner: in an attractive or pleasing manner; in a manner which meets accepted moral or social norms”)

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