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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He proved a natural for the medium: handsome with a beautiful voice and mesmerizing eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Investors who’ve been in on the artificial-intelligence build-out have reaped handsome stock-market gains over the past few years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Ann Keen was 17 and working in a toilet roll factory in Ewloe, Flintshire, when she was asked out by a handsome salesman.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
I realized in conversation with the handsome singletons of the Southern California coast, I was already halfway through an exciting post-divorce chapter of my life, coming out of my sad little shell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
And according to many Black women in the neighborhood, he’s very handsome.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Whatever the reasons, the local chapter of the Danish Brotherhood constructed a big, sturdy, multiuse building with handsome parapets outside and handsomer parquet flooring inside.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Now, however, he’s finally getting the cinematic recognition he deserves: Chris Pine, who is definitely handsomer than Robert ever was, will star in a new Netflix movie, Outlaw King, to be released Nov. 9.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
The 2008 revival of “South Pacific” on Broadway gave the baritone Paulo Szot, who reimagined the role of Emile de Becque in a younger and handsomer vein, an entree to a significant international opera career.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
There’s even a revisionist version of “Roots” that isn’t more than serviceable but is remarkably more handsome handsomer and better acted than the original.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
He was young, he was blond . . . and he was handsomer than any movie star I’d ever seen.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
The Ethiopians are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Randy Kreiling was from Peoria, Illinois, and one of the handsomest guys ever, just a stud.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2018
Queen Victoria reputedly praised him as the handsomest man she had ever met.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
“He was so warm and funny. My wife thought he was handsomest man in the world, and my son was obsessed with him,” Mr. Gray said.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2017
My eyes picked Karel immediately from the crowd in front of the church, dressed in top hat and tails as were all the male guests, but incomparably the handsomest there.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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