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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The Queen added: "May her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs."
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Will Beech join forces with them to solve the crime while sparking a romance with a handsome local cop?
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Forty-five years old, tall and strikingly handsome, Sumner was the consummate New England intellectual: widely traveled, deeply versed in classics and the law, and staunchly committed to the cause of African-Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The chance came and went as did Youssef Chermiti's late header, high, wide and far from handsome.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
He was handsome, blond, and charismatic, and everyone on the base knew who he was and what he was training to do.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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