Definitions for handsome

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handsome hand·some

Spelling: [han-suh m]

IPA: /ˈhæn səm/

Handsome is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 428 anagrams from letters in handsome (adehmnos).

Definitions for handsome

adjective

1. having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking:
2. having pleasing proportions, relationships, or arrangements, as of shapes, forms, or colors; attractive:
3. exhibiting skill, taste, and refinement; well-made:
4. considerable, ample, or liberal in amount:
5. gracious; generous; flattering:
6. adroit and appealing; graceful:

Origin of handsome

1350-1400; Middle English handsom easy to handle (see hand, -some¹); cognate with Dutch handzaam tractable

Examples for handsome

If he had engaged himself to a handsome schoolmistress, it was his fancy, and he could afford it.

Mark Reay is a handsome model-turned-photographer who is homeless, living in a secret ‘nest’ on top of an apartment building.

And there was big, handsome, Eddie Arledge, whose father had treated him shabbily.

Why aren't you as handsome and/or Canadian as Justin Bieber?

He worships every handsome woman, who will allow herself to be polluted by his incense.

Creator Takeuchi has described the handsome, older (than Sailor Moon) boy as her favorite character in the series.

I think everybody would like to be handsome and good at karate.

The handsome Alexander Gilkes is one of the best-connected tastemakers on the art scene.

Miss Glynne and her sister were known as "the handsome Miss Glynnes."

He was handsome and possessed a most intelligent and expressive countenance.