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handsome的比較級

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Handsome \Hand"some\ (?; 277), a. [Compar. {Handsomer}; superl.
   {Handsomest}.] [Hand + -some. It at first meant, dexterous;
   cf. D. handzaam dexterous, ready, limber, manageable, and E.
   handy.]
   1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied
      to things as persons. [Obs.]

            That they [engines of war] be both easy to be
            carried and handsome to be moved and turned about.
                                                  --Robynson
                                                  (Utopia).

            For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was
            first invented for him.               --Spenser.

   2. 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.