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English Dictionary: handsome	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for handsome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
handsome adj 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 Synonym(s): fine-looking, good-looking, better- looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured 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" Synonym(s): big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Handsome \Hand"some\ (?; 277), a. [Compar. {Handsomer}; superl. {Handsomest}.] [Hand + -some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam dexterous, ready, limber, manageable, and E. handy.] 1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. [Obs.] That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. --Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. --Spenser. 2. Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.