well-favored

[ wel-fey-verd ]

adjective

1. of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.

Word History and Origins

Origin of well-favored¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

Example Sentences

But Prince Dain is already angry with me just for stabbing the child of a well-favored member of his Court.

From Literature

In “Rodin,” the Eifman Ballet’s vigorous work about the well-favored artist, imagined passions are channeled into two hours of entwining bodies and sweat that felt like the Olympics of dance.

From Washington Post

Rachel, the youngest, was “beautiful and well-favored;” Leah, the elder, was “blear-eyed.”

From Project Gutenberg

And the ill-favored and lean cows did eat up the seven well-favored and fat cows.

From Project Gutenberg

In person he was a tall, well-favored man, in the prime of life, with hair just beginning to be flecked with gray.

From Project Gutenberg