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| 1. | [ adjective ] pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | |
| Synonyms: | fine-looking better-looking good-looking well-favoured well-favored | |
| Examples: | "a fine-looking woman" "a good-looking man" "better-looking than her sister" "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray |
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| Related terms: | beautiful | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | |
| Synonyms: | better-looking good-looking fine-looking well-favoured well-favored | |
| Examples: | "a fine-looking woman" "a good-looking man" "better-looking than her sister" "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray "our southern women |
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| Related terms: | beautiful | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] given or giving freely | |
| Synonyms: | liberal bighearted bountiful freehanded giving bounteous openhanded big | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | generous | |
| 4. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 30307 | |
| Similar spelling: |
handsomely hands handset hand_shovel Handshoe handsewn handstamp handspike handshake hands-down hands_down handsaw hands-on |
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