handsome
adj.
good-looking, beautiful, attractive; gracious, pleasing; generous in size or amount, moderately large
Handsome
handsome
Adjective
1. 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) fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, well-favored, well-favoured
(similar) beautiful
2. 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) big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded
(similar) generous
Handsome
(superl.)
Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.
(superl.)
Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.
(superl.)
Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
(superl.)
Ample; moderately large.
(superl.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Handsome
To see yourself handsome-looking in your dreams, you will prove yourself an ingenious flatterer.
To see others appearing handsome, denotes that you will enjoy the confidence of fast people.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see:
Guttenberg Project