Synonyms for handsome
ˈhæn səmhand·some

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. handsomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   pretty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. handsome

   The definition of beauty, "perfection of form," is a good key to the meaning of beautiful, if we understand "form" in its widest sense. There must also be harmony and unity, and in human beings spiritual loveliness, to constitute an object or a person really beautiful. Thus, we speak of a beautiful landscape, a beautiful poem. But beautiful implies also, in concrete objects, softness of outline and delicacy of mold; it is opposed to all that is hard and rugged, hence we say a beautiful woman, but not a beautiful man. Beautiful has the further limit of not transcending our powers of appreciation. Pretty expresses in a far less degree that which is pleasing to a refined taste in objects comparatively small, slight, and dainty; as, a pretty bonnet; a pretty girl. That is handsome which is not only superficially pleasing, but well and harmoniously proportioned, with usually the added idea that it is made so by art, breeding, or training; as, a handsome horse; a handsome house. Handsome is a term far inferior to beautiful; we may even say a handsome villain. Fair denotes what is bright, smooth, clear, and without blemish; as, a fair face. The word applies wholly to what is superficial; we can say "fair, yet false." In a specific sense, fair has the sense of blond, as opposed to dark or brunette. One who possesses vivacity, wit, good nature, or other pleasing qualities may be attractive without beauty. Comely denotes an aspect that is smooth, genial, and wholesome, with a certain fulness of contour and pleasing symmetry, tho falling short of the beautiful; as, a comely matron. That is picturesque which would make a striking picture.

   Synonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Antonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

   Preposition:
   Beautiful to the eye; beautiful in appearance, in spirit; "beautiful for situation," Ps. xlviii, 2; beautiful of aspect, of its kind.

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1. handsome

   Synonyms:
   comely, good-looking, generous, liberal, beautiful, ample, pretty, graceful, lovely, elegant

   Antonyms:
   uncomely, ill-looking, ungenerous, illiberal, unhandsome

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favouredadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   bounteous, giving, big, better-looking, openhanded, bighearted, well-favoured, bountiful, good-looking, fine-looking, liberal, freehanded, well-favored

   Antonyms:
   ugly, ungenerous, stingy

2. big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhandedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   plentiful, magnanimous, bountiful, prominent, big, vainglorious, cock-a-hoop, free, braggy, good-looking, with child(p), fine-looking, giving, large-minded, grownup, grown, large(p), enceinte, well-favoured, bounteous, liberal, self-aggrandizing, broad, swelled, fully grown, braggart(a), bighearted, expectant, freehand, tolerant, heavy(a), great(p), large, bragging(a), bad, freehanded, heavy(p), well-favored, big(a), better-looking, self-aggrandising, boastful, full-grown, openhanded, adult, gravid, big(p), crowing, loose

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous, ugly

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1. alluringadjective

   the young girl was very alluring as her hair blew in the breeze.

   Submitted by 312719 on November 20, 2021  

2. awesome

   handsome rhymes with awesome

   Submitted by bathula on May 17, 2020  

3. sobhan

   Submitted by rahutsagarika on April 25, 2022  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. handsomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   beautiful (with dignity or grandeur) comely, fair, PRETTY, well-formed, well-proportioned

2. handsomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   generous, liberal, disinterested, noble, magnanimous

3. handsomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   ample, sufficient, plentiful

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1. List of paraphrases for "handsome":

   beautiful, good-looking, beau, nice, cute, lovely, elegant, pretty, good-iooking, gorgeous, charming, attractive, seductive, beauty, fine, good, beautifui

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How to use handsome in a sentence?

1. Guru Lekhraj:

   What mother doesn't want her son to be strong, well-built, handsome and smart?

2. Lei Ming:

   Since then, all young women nationwide find that girls who are dressed as guys are no less handsome and more sexually attractive and secure than real guys, in the subculture, neutral-looking, slender and short-hair girls resemble the ideal male image in the world of manga (Japanese comics). This positioning appeals to a lot of people of the new generation.

3. Ben Moorhead:

   I'm still making a very handsome living doing what I'm doing, the boom hasn't died, but it's slowed down to the point beyond just needing warm bodies.

4. John Gay:

   How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

5. George Foreman:

   Muhammad Ali talked, Muhammad Ali was handsome, Muhammad Ali did wonderful things, if you were 16 years old and wanted to copy somebody, it had to be Muhammad Ali.