The comparative form of 'comely,' meaning more attractive, pleasant-looking, or graceful in appearance than someone or something else.
From 'comely' (from Old English 'cymlic' meaning suitable or becoming) + '-er' (comparative suffix), tracking back to Proto-Germanic roots meaning 'fitting or appropriate.'
The word 'comely' is basically extinct in modern speech, but Shakespeare used it constantly—it's a casualty of language evolution, replaced by simpler words like 'pretty.'
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