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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: handsome adj 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 [syn: {fine-looking}, {good-looking}, {better-looking}, {well-favored}, {well-favoured}] 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" [syn: {big}, {bighearted}, {bounteous}, {bountiful}, {freehanded}, {giving}, {liberal}, {openhanded}]
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