Handsome

Definition: Handsome

Handsome

Adjective

1. Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman.

2. Given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "handsome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Handsome \Hand"some\, adjective. [Comparative Handsomer; superlative Handsomest.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Handsome

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Disinterestedness

Handsome, liberal, noble, broad-minded; noble-minded, high-minded; princely, great, high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, magnanimous; great-hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime.

Liberality

Phrase: "handsome is that handsome does".

Adjective: liberal, free, generous; charitable; (beneficent); hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.

Wealth

Noun: wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence; (sufficiency); solvency.

Crosswords: Handsome

! Sydney, this man is the leader of the free world. He's brilliant, he's funny, he's handsome, and he's an above-average dancer (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

I'm tall, dark and handsome, and you're third world ugly (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

He was handsome. And he was feckless (Oliver Twist; writing credit: Alan Bleasdale; Charles Dickens)

That is a very handsome women (We're No Angels; writing credit: Albert Husson; Ranald MacDougall)

You're handsome, woman love you and I'm drunk and from Ohio (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

To get a brown eyed handsome man (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

The handsome man with athletic thighs (I will buy you a new life; performing artist: Everclear)

Inside her handsome home (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

No handsome face could ever take the play of my guy ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells)

Don't lamp wit a freestyle phantom ain't tryin' to be handsome (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

The Handsome Hero Perplexed by Love (1951)

Dark and Handsome Tall (1941)

Poor Gigolo Handsome Gigolo (1930)

High and Handsome (1925)

The Handsome Brute (1925)

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References

• Handsome Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Handsome Devil (Zebra Historical Romance) (reference)

• Handsome Heroines: Women As Men in Folklore (reference)

• Handsome Is: Adventures With Saul Bellow: A Memoir (reference)

• Handsome Men's Sweaters (Easy to Knit Series) (reference)

• Handsome Women (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Johnny Handsome (reference)

• Chippendales:Tall Dark & Handsome (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Handsome Henry Boyle. Credit: Library of Congress.

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No, it was long enough, broad enough, handsome enough

A footman, in a handsome livery, came forward and respectfully touched his hat.

He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome. His hair was wiry and gingerish and brushed backwards from the temples

In her eyes Jean Valjean was handsome, just as the garret had seemed pretty

He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose

Marry with a king, A bachelor, and a handsome stripling too.

Unconsciously he became like his brother, and his handsome face brooded, and his shoulders relaxed

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Economic History

Indonesia

The local integrated poultry-feedmill industry and those poultry farms which survived the crisis are reportedly making handsome profits. (references)

Barbados

Early contact and rapport with Labor Ministry officials and union leaders by foreign investors could pay handsome dividends in later labor harmony. (references)

Political Economy

Japan

Handsome, frank and articulate, Koizumi garnered overwhelming public support by promising to undertake thoroughgoing reforms of Japan's economy and political system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Handsome as the day

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Expressions using "handsome": come down handsome ♦ handsome is that handsome does ♦ handsome man ♦ handsome young man ♦ more handsome ♦ To do the handsome thing. Additional references.

Beginning with "handsome": handsome-looking, handsome-ugly.

Ending with "handsome": street-handsome.

Afrikaans

mooi (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), deftig (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Albanian

i pashëm (dashing, good looking, nice-looking, personable, proper, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pleasant, pukka, salable, tops, virtuous), i lezetshëm (agreeable, comely, cool, delicious, delightful, ingratiatingly, jolly, nice, pretty), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i bukur (airy fairy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, bonny, good, good looking, goodly, lovely, nice, pinup, pleasant, pretty), bukur (beautiful, beautifully, capitally, fair, fine, lovely, nicely, prettily), bujar (big, bounteous, bountiful, disinterested, free-handed, generous, gentle, gentlemanlike, good, good hearted, lavish, liberal, nobleman, open handed, princely, unselfish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مليح (beautiful, nice, pleasant, pretty), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, comely, cunning, dainty, dapper, encore, fair, good looking, goodly, pretty), ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏سخى, ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet), ‏بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щедър (benevolent, bountiful, charitable, flush, free, freehanded, generous, large handed, large-hearted, liberal, lordly, munificent, openhanded, pickwickian, princely, prodigal, profuse, stintless, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), красив (beauteous, beautiful, fair, good looking, goodly, personable, well favored, well-favoured), внушителен (awesome, compulsive, gallant, grave, heroic, imperial, imposing, impressive, noble, portly, proud, towering), великодушен (bighearted, generous, great-hearted, large-hearted, magnanimous, noble-minded), значителен (appreciable, considerable, goodly, important, major, marked, monumental, respectable, round, sensible, serious, significant, smart, symbolic, symbolical, tidy), представителен (comely, gallant, personable, portly, representative). (various references)

Chinese 

英俊 . (various references)

Czech

hezký (attractive, considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, gorgeous, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty), znaèný (appreciable, considerable, extensive, fair, sizable, some, substantial, substantive, tidy), urostlá, pohledná, pìkný (fine, good looking, nice, nice-looking, pretty, specious), královský (kingly, regal, royal), štìdrý (bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, large handed, large-hearted, lavish, munificent, open handed, open-hearted, profuse, unguarded, unsparing). (various references)

Danish

smuk (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), skøn (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Dutch

schoon (beautiful, clean, fair, fine, lovely, pure), net (above-board, beautiful, beautifully, cleanly cut, elegant, exactly, fair, fine, honest, just, just now, lovely, neat, net, network, okay, precise, precize, right, upright), mooi (beautiful, beautifully, fair, fine, lovely, nice, pretty), knap (ably, beautiful, cleanly cut, cultured, educated, fair, fine, intelligent, learned, lovely, neat, net, precise, precize, sagacious, well-informed), fraai (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Esperanto

bela (beautiful, fine, lovely). (various references)

Faeroese

vakur (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Farsi 

مطبوع (Dainty, Douce, Exquisite, Fun, Graceful, Lief, Proper, Scrumptious, Sweet, Toothsome), سخاوتمندانه (Free), زیبا (Beauteous, Beautiful, Chic, Cute, Dinky, Picturesque, Pulchritudinous, Scrumptious, Spiffy, Stylish, Yummy), خوش قیافه (Looker), دلپذیر (Amiable, Graceful, Gracious, Kindly, Lief, Lovely, Luscious, Mellow, Melodious, Nice, Palatable, Scrumptious). (various references)

Finnish

kaunis (beautiful, fair, fine, good-looking, lovely). (various references)

French

beau (handsome man). (various references)

Frisian

moai (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

German

hübsch (beautiful, bonnie, bonny, comely, delightful, fair, fine, lovely, neat, neatly, nice, nice-looking, nifty, pretty, tidy, trim), gutaussehend (beautiful, good looking, goodly, personable, smarting), stattlich (considerable, gallant, imposing, impressive, lovely, magnificent, majestic, noble, opulent, personable, portly, sightly, splendid, stately, strapping), schön (absolute, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brightly, comely, easily, enjoyable, fair, fine, finely, good enough, goodly, great, lovely, nice, nice-looking, nicely, precious, pretty, pulchritudinous, really, smoothly, splendid, well), gut aussehend (nice-looking, sightly), anständig (above-board, becoming, comely, decent, decently, decorous, decorously, fairly, handsomely, honest, modest, modestly, perennially, proper, reputable, respectable, self-respecting, sizable, sizeable, sporting, sportingly, square, upright), ansehnlich (considerable, eminent, impressive, personable, respectable, respectably, sightly, sizable, sizeable). (various references)

Greek 

όμορφοσ (beautiful, buxom, good looking), σημαντικόσ (considerable, conspicuous, material, notable, outstanding, semantic, sententious, significant), γενναιόδοροσ, γεναιόδοροσ, ωραίοσ (attractive, beauteous, beautiful, fair, fancy, fine, lovely, nice, peach, pulchritudinous, rot, winsome). (various references)

Hawaiian

bukur (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Hebrew 

יפה מראה, יפה תואר (good looking), יפה (appropriately, beautiful, beautifully, comely, fair, finely, good looking, lovely, nice, picturesque, pretty, right, well), טוב מראה (good looking), נאה (comely, dwelling, fine, habitation, meadow, natty, nice, pasture, personable, pleasant, presentable, pretty, seemly, sightly). (various references)

Hungarian

jelentékeny (considerable, noteworthy, of high account). (various references)

Icelandic

fallegur (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), fagur (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Indonesian

tampan (dashing, good-looking, sharp-looking), ganteng (bold, coagulated, congealed, dashing, good-looking, sharp-looking), gagah (bold, brawny, dashing, gallant, gutsy, muscular), ciamik (beautiful), anggun (elegant, grace, graceful, neat). (various references)

Irish

dathúil (beautiful, fine, lovely). (various references)

Italian

bello (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, kind, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty, sheen, sightly, smart, well), carino (affable, beautiful, cute, decent, dinky, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, poppet, pretty, sweet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

端正 (noble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たんせい (cultivation, diligence, effort, graceful, noble, pains, painting, red and blue, shapely, sigh, sincerity, training, unisexual, working earnestly), ハンサム , びもくしゅうれい, ひぬつ (erudite and refined), りっぱ (elegant, fine, imposing, legal, legitimate, prominent, splendid). (various references)

Korean 

잘생긴. (various references)

Malay

indah (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), cantik (beautiful, charming, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Manx

bwoyagh (attractive, beauteous, beautiful, comely, lovely, pretty), bwaagh (beauteous, beautiful, comely, lovely, pretty), breagh (pretty), braew (brave, fine, nice, precious, rare, splendid), aalin (beautiful, fair, splendid). (various references)

Norwegian

vakker (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), skjønn (beautiful, fair, fine, judgement, lovely), pen (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Papiamen

kiut (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), bunita (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely, pretty). (various references)

Pig Latin

andsomehay.(various references)

Polish

piękny (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely), ładny (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely, pleasing, pretty). (various references)

Portuguese

formoso (beautiful, bonny, fine, lovely), belo (beauteous, beautiful, fine, gallant, good-looking, lovely, sightly), bonito (beautiful, dinky, fetching, fine, good, good-looking, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty). (various references)

Romanian

frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured). (various references)

Russian 

красивый (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dishy, fine, flavorful, gallant, good looking, good-looking, goodly, lovely, nice, personable, pulchritudinous, sightly, well favored, well-favoured). (various references)

Scottish

rìomhach (costly, elegant, fine), laoineach, foinneamh , foinidh, eireachdail (becoming, graceful, proper), eareachdail, dàicheil (genteel, graceful), cuimir (brief, concise, tidy, trim), cuanna, cuannar, briagha (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely, See <A HREF="mf01.html#brèagha">brèagha</A>), àluinn (beautiful, elegant, splendid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zgodan (appropriate, apt, attractive, comely, convenient, felicitous, good looking, nice-looking, occasional, opportune, pat, suitable), lep (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dreamy, fair, fine, goodly, nice, pretty, scenic, scenical). (various references)

Spanish

bonito (affable, beauteous, beautiful, charming, delightful, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, kind, lovely, lustrous, nice, pretty), guapo (beautiful, comely, dandified, good looking, lazy, nice, nice-looking, pretty). (various references)

Sranan

moy (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Swahili

-zuri (beautiful, fair, fine, good, lovely, nice, okay), zuri (beautiful, fine, good, lovely, nice). (various references)

Swedish

vacker (beautiful, comely, fair, fine, lovely, pretty, sightly, sweet, tidy, winsome), ståtlig (gallant, lofty, lordly, noble, pompous, portly, proud, proud-stomached, stately). (various references)

Tagalog

magandá (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Turkish

güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome). (various references)

Turkmen 

nurana (good looking), kaзaс (beautiful). (various references)

Ukrainian

статний (noble, statuesque), щедрий (boon, bounteous, charitable, flush, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, munificent, open, open handed, prodigal, profuse, ungrudging, wanton), вродливий (beautiful, bonny, good looking, nice-looking, personable), величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), значний (appreciable, considerable, gey, important, independent, intense, notable, pretty, respectable, smart, substantive, tidy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hậu hĩ lớn, hào phóng (free-handed, freely, munificent, open-handed, prodigal), rộng rãi (bounteous, bountiful, commodious, extensive, free-handed, large-hearted, liberal, open-handed, open-minded, roomy, spacious), đẹp tốt đẹp. (various references)

Welsh

prydferth (beautiful, fine), hardd (beautiful, fine). (various references)

Yucatec

hats'uts (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

Zulu

-hle (beautiful, fair, fine, good, lovely, nice, okay, pretty), -bukekayo (beautiful, fair, fine, lovely). (various references)

bellus, formonsa, formonsus, formosus, pulcher, pulcher pulchra pulchrum, pulcherrima, pulcherrimi, pulcherrimis, pulcherrimo, pulcherrimus, pulchra, pulchrae, pulchram, pulchras, pulchri, pulchrior, pulchriores, pulchros, pulchrum, speciosus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "handsome": handsomely, handsomeness, handsomenesses, handsomer, handsomest. (additional references)

Words ending with "handsome": unhandsome. (additional references)

Words containing "handsome": unhandsomely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Handsome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: andsomes, hagdom, handsom, Handsomes, handson, Hansma, hansome. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: daemons, masoned, monades.

-2 letters: amends, anodes, ashmen, daemon, damson, demons, desman, hansom, hondas, mahoes, mashed, menads, moaned, monads, mondes, moshed, nomads, noshed, shamed.

-3 letters: admen, aeons, amend, amens, anode, ashed, ashen, dames, damns, deans, deash, demon, demos, domes, donas, hades, haems, hames, hands, hanse, heads, homed, homes, honda, honed, hones, hosed, hosen, mahoe.

+1 letter: handsomer, homelands, methadons.

+2 letters: admonished, admonisher, admonishes, handsomely, handsomest, harmonised, methadones, rhodamines, unhandsome.

+3 letters: admonishers, heathendoms, maidenhoods, motherlands.

+4 letters: admonishment, disharmonies, disharmonize, dysmenorrhea, ethionamides, grandmothers, handsomeness, hemodynamics, homesteading, hydromancies, malnourished, monadelphous, unhandsomely.

+5 letters: admonishments, adrenochromes, commandership, dexamethasone, diathermanous, disharmonized, disharmonizes, dysmenorrheas, endotheliomas, indomethacins, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies, rhodomontades.