handsome
IPA: hˈænsʌm
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To render handsome.
adjective
- Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly
- Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
- Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
- Good, appealing, appropriate.
- (of weather) Fine, clear and bright.
- Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
- Generous or noble in character.
- Ample; moderately large.
- (obsolete) Of people and things: dexterous; skillful.
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Examples of "handsome" in Sentences
- He was magnanimous and handsome.
- He was tall, lithe and handsome.
- Look at the handsome man in the picture.
- He is the most handsome man in the country.
- He is by far the most handsome of the group.
- He is handsome, selfish, amoral and hedonistic.
- Beebo was smart, handsome, chivalrous, and virile.
- “I'm not sure about the word handsome,” Joseph said.
- The Omnibus is a handsome machine, in the shape of a van.
- He is handsome and intelligent, but unbridled and arrogant.
- He is decribed as handsome, intelligent and somewhat workaholic.
- But still he is not quite a — what one calls a handsome man, nor quite
- But the word handsome did not even approach the glory of Alec Aarronson.
- "I give it up," said I. "It's because I'm so _handsome_ -- we're _all_ handsome, you know, and
- If I'm going to ride what he calls the handsome, Jake thought, I'd just as soon go with plenty of company.
- I, prompted by that worst of devils, poverty, returned to the vile practice, and made the advantage of what they call a handsome face to be the relief to my necessities, and beauty be a pimp to vice.
- Do you not know that the animal, which they call a handsome and beautiful object, is so much more formidable than the Tarantula, as those insects instil something when they touch, but this creature, without even touching, but if a person only looks at it, though from a very great distance, instils something of such potency, as to drive people mad?
- I often reflected how my lover at the Bath, struck at the hand of God, repented and abandoned me, and refused to see me any more, though he loved me to an extreme; but I, prompted by that worst of devils, poverty, returned to the vile practice, and made the advantage of what they call a handsome face to be the relief to my necessities, and beauty be a pimp to vice.