comely

英['k?ml?] 美['k?mli]

反義詞

比較級:?comelier;最高級:?comeliest;

comely 標致的

可能來自becoming, 得體的，適宜的。

comely: comely: [13] Old English had an adjective cymlic ‘beautiful’ (no relation at all to come), but this seems to have died out around the year 1000, and it is likely that comely, which first appears in the early 13th century, represents a reduced version of becomely, an adjective long since defunct of which there are a few records towards the end of the 12th century. This meant ‘suitable, becoming’ (it was formed, of course, from the verb become), an early meaning of comely; its other semantic strand, ‘beautiful’, is probably a memory of Old English cymlic.
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comely (adj.): "beautiful, handsome," c. 1400, probably from Old English cymlic "lovely, splendid, finely made," from cyme "exquisite, glorious, delicate," from West Germanic *kumi- "delicate, feeble" (cognates: Old High German chumo "with difficulty," chumig "weak, delicate;" German kaum "hardly, scarcely"). Or perhaps the modern word is from Middle English bicumelic (c. 1200) "suitable, exquisite," literally "becomely" (compare becoming).

2. A nervous, comely - dressed little girl stepped out.: 一個緊張不安、衣著漂亮的小姑娘站了出來.

3. She bloomed herself, and was a comely, comfortable, reasonable woman.: 她自己也發福起來, 是個容貌宜人, 通情達理的女人.

4. Such a fear also troubled the comely head of Mme. Chiang kai - shek.: 這樣一種恐懼也使蔣介石夫人的標致的腦袋不安過一陣子.

5. All were at least comely, and one of them very handsome and regular of feature.: 她們至少都長得不難看, 其中有一個容貌很端正,很漂亮.