handsome
handsome is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.
- superlative. Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.
- superlative. Ample; moderately large.
- adjective. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion- Thackeray- Lillian Hellman
"a fine-looking woman"
"a good-looking man"
- adjective. given or giving freely
"was a big tipper"
"the bounteous goodness of God"
Synonyms
big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded
Common word forms
handsomer, handsomely, handsomest, handsomeness
Words from these letters
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