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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Vagner was tall, unbearably handsome and disarmingly charming.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
There’s also Don Johnson, the impossibly handsome star of “Miami Vice,” the ’80s cop show that presented the neighborhood to the world as something exciting and exotic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The chance came and went as did Youssef Chermiti's late header, high, wide and far from handsome.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Nine trustees ran dozens of companies as one, controlling the market from exploration to retail, and paying out handsome dividends.
From Barron's • May 2, 2026
Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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