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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The Ethiopians are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In that film, her character inherits a cozy Alaska inn from her aunt, and gets courted by the town’s handsomest attorney.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2018
Queen Victoria reputedly praised him as the handsomest man she had ever met.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2018
Truth to tell, some of the handsomest quilts are nothing but borders whose different patterns and shifting rhythms continue to the center, sometimes culminating in a compass rose.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2017
“Isn’t he the handsomest creature in the whole world?”
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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