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/icons/point.icon BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY, HANDSOME, PRETTY, COMELY, FAIR mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure.
BEAUTIFUL applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses.
e.g. beautiful mountain scenery
LOVELY is close to BEAUTIFUL but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite.
e.g. a lovely melody
HANDSOME suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance.
e.g. a handsome Georgian mansion
PRETTY often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness.
e.g. a painter of conventionally pretty scenes
COMELY is like HANDSOME in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to.
e.g. the comely grace of a dancer
FAIR suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness.
e.g. fair of face
adjective (handsomer, handsomest)
1. (of a man) good-looking.
〈男性(の顔)が〉ハンサムな, 美男子の, 顔立ちの整った
(of a woman) striking and imposing in good looks rather than conventionally pretty.
〈女性が〉きりっとした, 威厳のある (!女性の場合は健康的ではつらつとした様子を表す)
(of a thing) well made, imposing, and of obvious quality:
〈建物･庭･動物などが〉立派な外見の, 均整のとれた, 見事な
e.g. handsome cookbooks
e.g. a handsome country town.
2. (of a number, sum of money, or margin) substantial:
〖名詞の前で〗かなりの〈金額など〉; 気前のよい, 手厚い, 寛大な〈贈り物･申し出など〉(generous); 大差の〈勝利〉
e.g. elected by a handsome majority.
PHRASES
handsome is as handsome does
proverb character and behavior are more important than appearance.
DERIVATIVES
handsomeness noun
ORIGIN
Middle English: from hand + -some1. The original sense was ‘easy to handle or use’, hence ‘suitable’ and ‘apt, clever’ (mid 16th century), giving rise to the current appreciatory senses (late 16th century).