Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pleasing to see; visually appealing.
- adjective Affording a fine view; scenic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; esthotically pleasing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pleasing to the sight; comely.
- adjective Open to sight; conspicuous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Attractive , pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight;aesthetically pleasing. - adjective Open to sight;
conspicuous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very pleasing to the eye
Etymologies
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Examples
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Begin the meeting on time-or if possible sightly early - this will minimize chair squirming and lessen any build up of tension.
Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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"Maxfield Parrish Blue (s)", which is my sightly bent Singularity story.
Odin's Day s00j 2009
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In the end, Florida is sightly cheaper for most people to reach, except for some West Coasters.
Who Wins—Florida or Arizona? Jared Diamond 2011
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Joe Johnston is a hit, miss, or sightly tap director amri
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One pair above sightly farther out than the inner pair.
Avatar -- at last! Dark Worlds Club 2010
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One final item of note: "127 Hours" expanded its release from very limited last weekend (four theaters) to sightly less limited (22 theaters) and continued to score high per-screen averages.
Weekend box office: 'Megamind' maintains top spot Jen Chaney 2010
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Do you mean they change the language sightly for the US market?
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All four have sightly different heights, and all are different from the heights of the standard approved tables.
Boing Boing 2007
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We where fined and sentenced to 100 hours of community service because we didn't keep our front lawn "sightly and in harmony" with the other properties but then again we don't really have a any green thumbs in our family and for some reason people think it is better to call the cops rather recommend a gardener.
Drying Clothes Donald Goodman 2009
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The plastic wrap does get sightly submerged but is easily removed when thawed.
Left-Left-Overs 2009
mollusque commented on the word sightly
There was a beautiful view from the doorstep and we stopped a minute there. "Real sightly, ain't it?" said Mrs. Bonny. "But you ought to be here and look across the woods some morning just at sun-up. Why, the sky is all yaller and red, and them low lands topped with fog!
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877, Deephaven
January 28, 2010