Usually means: Attractive and pleasing in appearance.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word handsome:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. handsome: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. handsome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. handsome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. handsome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. handsome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Handsome, handsome: Wordnik
  7. handsome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. handsome: Wiktionary
  9. handsome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. handsome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. handsome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Handsome, handsome: Dictionary.com
  13. handsome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. handsome: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Handsome (Handsome album), Handsome (band), Handsome (film), Handsome (song), Handsome, The Handsome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Handsome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. handsome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. handsome: Rhymezone
  19. handsome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. handsome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HANDSOME: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. handsome: Free Dictionary
  23. handsome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Handsome, handsome: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. handsome: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. handsome: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handsome: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handsome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handsome: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handsome: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See handsomely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive
adjective:  Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
adjective:  Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
adjective:  Good, appealing, appropriate.
adjective:  (of weather) Fine, clear and bright.
adjective:  Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
adjective:  Generous or noble in character.
adjective:  Ample; moderately large.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of people and things: dexterous; skillful.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To render handsome.

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    charcoal,     burgundy,     forest green,     slate gray,     royal blue,     mahogany,     chestnut,     midnight blue,     olive,     maroon



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