Synonyms of handsome

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adjective

1

as in graceful

having or showing elegance

the glass-topped table was a handsome addition to the room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• graceful
• elegant
• fine
• magnificent
• majestic
• proud
• luxurious
• glorious
• stylish
• rich
• gallant
• royal
• classy
• superb
• tasteful
• noble
• regal
• aristocratic
• simple
• refined
• courtly
• sophisticated
• stately
• grand
• quiet
• fashionable
• lavish
• sleek
• exquisite
• heroic
• ornate
• splendid
• polished
• imposing
• monumental
• heroical
• classic
• conservative
• restrained
• artful
• baronial
• chic
• smart
• understated
• genteel
• posh
• swanky
• patrician
• august
• swank
• pretentious
• grandiose
• ostentatious
• sharp
• modish
• snappy
• a la mode
• in
• affected
• swagger
• recherché
• à la mode

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unhandsome
• unfashionable
• dowdy
• inelegant
• tasteless
• flamboyant
• graceless
• loud
• coarse
• unstylish
• grotesque
• flashy
• crude
• gaudy
• raffish
• tawdry
• garish
• cheesy
• glitzy
• tacky
• splashy
• styleless
• vulgar
• uncouth
• rude
• unpolished
• trashy
• unrefined
• uncultured
• uncultivated
• rough-hewn
• ticky-tacky
• rough-edged
• ticky-tack

2

as in large

of a size greater than average of its kind

earns a handsome salary as senior vice president of the firm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• large
• sizable
• substantial
• considerable
• big
• tidy
• great
• oversized
• huge
• oversize
• sizeable
• bulky
• gigantic
• husky
• enormous
• outsized
• voluminous
• excessive
• spacious
• hefty
• tremendous
• goodly
• colossal
• massive
• extravagant
• vast
• staggering
• grand
• outsize
• largish
• hulking
• boxcar
• super
• ample
• astronomical
• immense
• stupendous
• biggish
• mammoth
• mountainous
• plentiful
• heroic
• prodigious
• astronomic
• humongous
• gargantuan
• monstrous
• heroical
• monolithic
• major
• thick
• monumental
• cavernous
• titanic
• abundant
• exorbitant
• gross
• whopping
• jumbo
• copious
• cyclopean
• herculean
• humungous
• cosmic
• appreciable
• elephantine
• cosmical
• galactic
• commodious
• inordinate
• king-sized
• Himalayan
• super-duper
• extreme
• roomy
• immoderate
• king-size
• supersized
• bumper
• pharaonic
• vasty
• Bunyanesque
• capacious
• Brobdingnagian
• fat
• hellacious
• whacking
• leviathan
• walloping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• small
• little
• puny
• dwarf
• smallish
• undersized
• dinky
• dwarfish
• undersize
• tiny
• diminutive
• miniature
• microscopic
• mini
• microscopical
• minuscule
• infinitesimal
• slender
• wee
• shrimpy
• little bitty
• pocket-size
• pygmy
• teeny
• half-pint
• bantam
• thin
• petite
• teensy
• slim
• minute
• Lilliputian
• pocket-sized
• slight
• pint-size
• pint-sized
• microminiature
• teeny-weeny
• teensy-weensy

3

as in beautiful

very pleasing to look at

a handsome man with finely chiseled features

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beautiful
• attractive
• lovely
• gorgeous
• cute
• pretty
• charming
• stunning
• good
• elegant
• good-looking
• delightful
• sexy
• likely
• comely
• ravishing
• beauteous
• glorious
• drop-dead
• magnificent
• goodly
• perfect
• aesthetic
• fascinating
• fetching
• seemly
• hot
• esthetic
• fair
• knockout
• flawless
• superb
• aesthetical
• desirable
• exquisite
• taking
• pleasant
• bonny
• well-favored
• sightly
• alluring
• appealing
• glamorous
• lovesome
• splendid
• cunning
• bonnie
• esthetical
• delicate
• statuesque
• glamourous
• radiant
• prepossessing
• engaging
• resplendent
• seductive
• personable
• sublime
• dainty
• presentable
• hunky
• foxy
• striking
• glossy
• luscious
• flamboyant
• showy
• toothsome
• snazzy
• photogenic
• nubile
• slick
• studly
• flashy
• dishy
• Junoesque
• telegenic
• pulchritudinous
• prettyish
• arresting
• splashy
• chocolate-box
• dollish
• eye-catching
• zingy
• showstopping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ugly
• unattractive
• plain
• homely
• hideous
• grotesque
• unsightly
• unlovely
• repulsive
• bad
• terrible
• unpleasing
• disagreeable
• loathsome
• horrible
• objectionable
• disgusting
• unhandsome
• dreadful
• ghastly
• frightful
• vile
• repugnant
• offensive
• shocking
• abominable
• revolting
• unbeautiful
• nasty
• repellent
• abhorrent
• sickening
• uncomely
• unpleasant
• ill-favored
• foul
• uncute
• unpretty
• nauseating
• unaesthetic
• unprepossessing
• unappealing
• unappetizing
• repellant
• frumpy
• unbecoming
• unimposing
• frumpish
• unshapely

4

as in sizable

sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention

real estate developers realized a handsome profit on that deal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sizable
• substantial
• considerable
• significant
• good
• respectable
• healthy
• huge
• big
• sizeable
• tremendous
• tidy
• great
• goodly
• major
• substantive
• massive
• largish
• oversized
• bulky
• biggish
• voluminous
• hefty
• outsized
• gigantic
• oversize
• enormous
• colossal
• outsize
• prodigious
• hulking
• monstrous
• mammoth
• immense
• monumental
• astronomical
• titanic
• herculean
• whopping
• jumbo
• astronomic
• bumper
• king-sized
• elephantine
• king-size

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nominal
• insignificant
• inconsiderable
• negligible
• insubstantial
• inconsequential
• puny
• unimportant
• petty
• trivial
• trifling
• marginal
• small
• meager
• paltry
• tiny
• little
• meagre
• piddling
• minute
• slight
• picayune
• undersized
• diminutive
• miniature
• undersize
• measly
• smallish
• picayunish
• pocket
• bitty
• pocket-size
• pygmy
• pocket-sized
• pint-sized
• pint-size

handsomeness

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noun

1

as in elegance

dignified or restrained beauty of form, appearance, or style

a modern-style addition that detracts from the handsomeness of that neoclassic building

Synonyms & Similar Words

• elegance
• elegancy
• majesty
• gracefulness
• brilliance
• refinement
• grace
• courtliness
• simplicity
• fineness
• stateliness
• nobility
• classiness
• magnificence
• luxuriousness
• grandeur
• luxuriance
• richness
• dignity
• tastefulness
• glory
• opulence
• nobleness
• sophistication
• sumptuousness
• splendor
• lavishness
• resplendence
• luxury
• taste
• artfulness
• ornateness
• grandness
• exquisiteness
• class
• gloriousness
• chic
• classicism
• polish
• restraint
• grandiosity
• plushness
• ostentation
• resplendency
• showiness
• affectedness
• plushiness
• ostentatiousness
• pretentiousness
• augustness
• choiceness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inelegance
• vulgarity
• flamboyance
• coarseness
• kitsch
• crudeness
• gracelessness
• grotesqueness
• glitz
• grotesquerie
• gaudiness
• tawdriness
• tastelessness
• flashiness
• garishness
• grotesquery

2

as in beauty

the qualities in a person or thing that as a whole give pleasure to the senses

she never had noticed his handsomeness until he got a more becoming haircut

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beauty
• beautifulness
• attractiveness
• looks
• loveliness
• comeliness
• prettiness
• elegance
• cuteness
• aesthetics
• esthetics
• gorgeousness
• fairness
• attraction
• sightliness
• beauteousness
• appeal
• delightfulness
• glamor
• charm
• allure
• fascination
• glamour
• sexiness
• exquisiteness
• sublimity
• desirability
• seductiveness
• shapeliness
• resplendence
• radiance
• pulchritude
• gloriousness
• radiancy
• lusciousness
• desirableness
• daintiness
• flawlessness
• perfection
• nubility
• sex appeal
• sublimeness
• flamboyance
• splendidness
• slickness
• showiness
• flashiness
• foxiness
• resplendency
• glossiness
• superbness
• splendiferousness
• delicacy
• splashiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ugliness
• unattractiveness
• plainness
• homeliness
• grotesqueness
• hideousness
• unsightliness
• unloveliness
• vileness
• repulsiveness
• offensiveness
• disagreeableness
• loathsomeness
• dreadfulness
• foulness
• ghastliness
• repellency
• terribleness
• nastiness
• imperfection
• flaw
• horribleness
• blemish
• unbecomingness

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a handsome face

an attractive face

a pleasing face

a lovely face

a fine face

a pretty face

a handsome profit

a hefty profit

a lovely profit

a generous profit

a healthy profit

a tidy profit

a handsome book

an attractive book

a beautiful book

a gorgeous book

an elegant book

an exquisite book