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say it: HAN-suhm
handsome is an adjective meaning "pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion". It is pronounced /ˈhænsəm/ — HAN-suhm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
“our southern women are well-favored”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for handsome come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.