pleasing to the eye

English

Adjective

pleasing to the eye (comparative more pleasing to the eye, superlative most pleasing to the eye)

  1. pleasant to look at; physically attractive
    • 1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, pages 493, 495:
      Compact strongly-built engines, with a capacity for hard work, they were, perhaps, not in the front rank of handsome locomotives, yet withal were pleasing to the eye.
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