Handsome

/ˈhæn.səm/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
2. Good, appealing, appropriate.
3. Generous or noble in character.
4. Ample; moderately large.
5. (obsolete) Of people and things: dexterous; skillful.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To render handsome.

Example Sentences

That is one handsome tree you've got there.

I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.

At the farther end of this great lamp-lit apartment was another doorway closed in with heavy Oriental-looking curtains, quite unlike those that hung before the doors of our own rooms, and here stood two particularly handsome girl mutes, their heads bowed upon their bosoms and their hands crossed in an attitude of humble submission.

On the opposite side of the street, on the corner, is the city hall, a very handsome building of brick and stone.

The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

In recent times the Samoyed, one of the handsomest breeds, has become popular as a show dog in England and the U.S.

Often, human mortals describe their visits to the Tuatha's [places] in similar terms: they were great bright places, occupied by exceedingly handsome men and women, that sported wonderful crystal chairs, inexhaustible supplies of mead or ale ...

City have lapped up the plaudits this season for a series of handsome wins but manager Roberto Mancini has demanded that his side also learn to grind out results when they do not play well. He now has an example to point to.

Synonyms for handsome

Antonyms for handsome

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Word Forms

• more handsome
• handsomer
• most handsome
• handsomest
• handsomes
• handsoming
• handsomed

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