well-favored

especially British, well-fa·voured

[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

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.

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

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

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

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In fact, he was almost astonished that it had not occurred to him before that Eleanor was so exceptionally well-favored.

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