Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Pleasing to see; visually appealing.
- adj. Affording a fine view; scenic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Attractive, pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; aesthetically pleasing.
- adj. Open to sight; conspicuous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Pleasing to the sight; comely.
- adj. Open to sight; conspicuous.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; esthotically pleasing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. very pleasing to the eye
Etymologies
Examples
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In the end, Florida is sightly cheaper for most people to reach, except for some West Coasters.
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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)
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"Maxfield Parrish Blue (s)", which is my sightly bent Singularity story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The plastic wrap does get sightly submerged but is easily removed when thawed.
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