Handsome

Adjective

 * 1)  Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
 * That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. - Robynson (Utopia)
 * For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. - Edmund Spenser
 * 1)  Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely.
 * Examples: a handsome man; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.
 * 1)  Striking, impressive and elegantly proportioned, though not typically beautiful.
 * 2) Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate.
 * Examples: a handsome style, etc.
 * Easiness and handsome address in writing. - Felton
 * 1) Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.
 * Handsome is as handsome does. - Old Proverb
 * 1) Ample; moderately large.
 * He . . . accumulated a handsome sum of money. - V. Knox

Verb

 * 1)  To render handsome.

Adverbs for Handsome
dazzlingly; gloriously; intangibly; matchlessly; fiercely; surprisingly; sullenly; compellingly; richly; darkly; duskily; cruelly; stormily; vitally; singularly; imposingly; impressively; proudly; sternly; triumphantly; resplendently; glowingly; startlingly; regally; glamorously.

Verbs for Handsome
admire—; alter—; counterfeit—; decipher—; develop—; forge—; judge—; recognize —; —fascinates; —flourishes; —reveals; — wavers.

Synonyms for Handsome

 * pretty
 * beautiful, graceful, lovely, elegant, attractive, good-looking, comely, fair, well-favored, well-proportioned, shapely, agreeable, large, liberal, ample, generous.

Antonyms for Handsome
ugly, offensive, ill-favored, ungrateful, repulsive, mean, poor, small, insignificant.

Derived terms

 * to do the handsome thing

Thesaurus
abundant, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, ample, attractive, august, beauteous, beautiful, big, bighearted, bonny, bounteous, bountiful, chic, chivalrous, comely, considerable, dashing, elegant, elevated, endowed with beauty, exalted, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fashionable, fine, flowerlike, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, good, good-looking, goodly, graceful, gracile, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, heavy, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, idealistic, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lofty, lovely, magnanimous, majestic, modish, munificent, noble, noble-minded, open, openhanded, openhearted, pretty, princely, profuse, pulchritudinous, sizeable, smart, stately, stintless, stylish, sublime, substantial, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

Etymology
, compare handzaam:.

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