Usually means: Graceful, attractive, elegant in appearance.
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  1. gainly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gainly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gainly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gainly: Vocabulary.com
  5. gainly: Wordnik
  6. gainly: Wiktionary
  7. gainly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. gainly: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Gainly, gainly: Dictionary.com
  10. Gainly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gainly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. gainly: Rhymezone
  13. Gainly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. gainly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. gainly: Free Dictionary
  16. gainly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gainly: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. gainly: A Word A Day
  2. gainly: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (gainly)

adverb:  Suitably; fitly; conveniently; readily.
adverb:  Thoroughly; completely; (with adjectives) very.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) Proper; suitable; becoming.
adjective:  (archaic) Ready to help; kindly; gracious.
adjective:  (of conduct) Graceful; tactful
adjective:  (humorous, of bodily form, attitude, or movement) Shapely; handsome.

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