handsome
Usage
What are other ways to say handsome?
Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
Example Sentences
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“That’s a handsome man right there!” exclaims the mother of the junior competitor, who seethes as the audience laughs.
Though Brooks calls himself funny-looking where Bancroft was a great beauty all her life, they made a handsome couple; the photographs are wonderful.
From Los Angeles Times
Across the different characters and actors in shows, some are "traditionally handsome" but others are just "really interesting", he said.
From BBC
The speaker onstage now was a handsome white boy from Louisiana named Landry.
From Literature
But then he enacts the scene in which Iago subtly poisons Othello’s mind into believing that his wife is having an affair with a handsome lieutenant.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
