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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It pays a handsome dividend yield of 4.75%.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
But then Natalie meets “the one” — James, her boyishly handsome boss at a London start-up — and becomes even more terrified that the monster inside her may strike again.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
"He looked handsome, he always did, but I thought I was dreaming", she laughs.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
It is accompanied by a handsome catalog, more comprehensive than the exhibition, with biographies and a chronology.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
The speaker onstage now was a handsome white boy from Louisiana named Landry.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
