handsomely

The word “handsomely” has 3 syllables: hand-some-ly

It's pronounced as /ˈhænsəmli/


What is synonym and antonym for handsomely?

In the thesaurus, “handsomely” has 46 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for handsomely along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for handsomely

  • affably
  • altruistically
  • amiably
  • amply
  • beneficently
  • benevolently
  • bigheartedly
  • bounteously
  • bountifully
  • charitably
  • cheerfully
  • cheerily
  • congenially
  • considerately
  • cordially
  • courteously
  • freehandedly
  • freeheartedly
  • friendlily
  • generously
  • genially
  • good-heartedly
  • good-naturedly
  • graciously
  • hospitably
  • humanely
  • kindheartedly
  • kindly
  • lavishly
  • liberally
  • magnanimously
  • munificently
  • nicely
  • nobly
  • openhandedly
  • philanthropically
  • plentifully
  • reasonably
  • richly
  • selflessly
  • sweetly
  • thoughtfully
  • ungrudgingly
  • unselfishly
  • unstintingly
  • well

Antonyms for handsomely

  • angrily
  • begrudgingly
  • belligerently
  • coldly
  • contemptuously
  • coolly
  • cooly
  • disdainfully
  • frigidly
  • grudgingly
  • hostilely
  • insignificantly
  • obnoxiously
  • parsimoniously
  • poorly
  • provocatively
  • rudely
  • scornfully
  • stingily
  • ungenerously

Meanings of handsomely

  • adverb
    1. In a handsome or attractive manner.
    2. Generously.
    3. Impressively, thoroughly.
    4. Carefully; in shipshape style; without undue haste.

Example Sentences

  • He was handsomely rewarded for his hard work and dedication.
  • She was handsomely dressed for the evening event, attracting everyone’s attention.
  • The company paid their employees handsomely for the extra hours worked.
  • The actor was handsomely compensated for his role in the movie.
  • His performance in the competition was handsomely praised by the judges.

On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to handsomely, such as: affably, altruistically, amiably, amply, angrily, begrudgingly, belligerently.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abundantly

  • affluently
  • amply
  • appreciably
  • astronomically
  • big-time
  • broadly
  • colossally
  • considerably
  • copiously
  • enormously
  • extensively
  • fulsomely
  • generously
  • greatly
  • handsomely
  • healthily
  • highly
  • hugely
  • inexhaustibly
  • largely
  • lavishly
  • luxuriantly
  • massively
  • monstrously
  • monumentally
  • much
  • noticeably
  • plentifully
  • profusely
  • richly
  • satisfactorily
  • significantly
  • sizably
  • staggeringly
  • stupendously
  • sufficiently
  • tremendously
  • utterly
  • vastly

elegantly

  • adroitly
  • affably
  • agilely
  • agreeably
  • alluringly
  • amiably
  • appealingly
  • artistically
  • attentively
  • attractively
  • beautifully
  • benignantly
  • bewitchingly
  • carefully
  • cautiously
  • celestially
  • charmingly
  • civilly
  • cleanly
  • compassionately
  • concernedly
  • considerately
  • cordially
  • courteously
  • cutely
  • daintily
  • dashingly
  • deftly
  • delicately
  • delightfully
  • dexterously
  • divinely
  • easily
  • entrancingly
  • excellently
  • exquisitely
  • fashionably
  • fastidiously
  • felicitously
  • finely
  • fitly
  • fussily
  • gallantly
  • gently
  • gorgeously
  • gracefully
  • graciously
  • grandly
  • handsomely
  • harmoniously
  • ideally
  • illustriously
  • immaculately
  • ingratiatingly
  • kindheartedly
  • kindly
  • lightly
  • magnificently
  • majestically
  • meticulously
  • modishly
  • nattily
  • neatly
  • nimbly
  • orderly
  • pleasingly
  • precisely
  • prettily
  • pristinely
  • radiantly
  • remarkably
  • respectfully
  • rhythmically
  • seductively
  • sensitively
  • sharply
  • skillfully
  • smartly
  • smoothly
  • snappily
  • sociably
  • softly
  • solicitously
  • splendidly
  • spotlessly
  • sprucely
  • strikingly
  • stylishly
  • sublimely
  • subtly
  • superbly
  • swankily
  • symmetrically
  • tactfully
  • tastefully
  • tidily
  • trimly
  • urbanely
  • well
  • winningly
  • wonderfully

great

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Brobdingnagian
  • Bunyanesque
  • Himalayan
  • OK
  • able
  • abundant
  • acceptable
  • accomplished
  • ace
  • aces
  • acute
  • adept
  • adequate
  • adroit
  • advantageously
  • aeonian
  • aeonic
  • agog
  • agreeably
  • all right
  • all-around
  • all-day
  • all-night
  • all-round
  • amazing
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • ample
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appealingly
  • appetent
  • appetizingly
  • appreciable
  • arch
  • ardent
  • aristocratic
  • astronomic
  • astronomical
  • athirst
  • attractively
  • august
  • avid
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • beautiful
  • beautifully
  • best
  • better
  • big
  • biggish
  • blessedly
  • blue-blooded
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • boxcar
  • brag
  • brave
  • breathless
  • brilliant
  • bulky
  • bully
  • bumper
  • capable
  • capacious
  • capital
  • cardinal
  • cavernous
  • celebrated
  • central
  • champing at the bit
  • charmingly
  • chief
  • chivalrous
  • choice
  • chomping at the bit
  • classic
  • classical
  • clever
  • colossal
  • commanding
  • commodious
  • competent
  • compleat
  • complete
  • considerable
  • consummate
  • cool
  • copious
  • corking
  • cosmic
  • cosmical
  • covetous
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • craving
  • crazy
  • cyclopean
  • dandy
  • decent
  • decided
  • deft
  • delectably
  • deliciously
  • delightfully
  • desirous
  • dexterous
  • dextrous
  • dignified
  • disposed
  • distinguished
  • divine
  • dominant
  • dope
  • down
  • dreamily
  • dynamite
  • eager
  • educated
  • effective
  • effectual
  • efficient
  • elephantine
  • elevated
  • eminent
  • employable
  • enchantingly
  • endless
  • engaged
  • enjoyably
  • ennobled
  • enormous
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • enticingly
  • everlasting
  • exalted
  • excellent
  • excellently
  • exceptional
  • excessive
  • excited
  • exorbitant
  • experienced
  • expert
  • extended
  • extensive
  • extraordinary
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famed
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • far
  • fat
  • favorably
  • felicitously
  • fetchingly
  • fine
  • finely
  • first
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • fit
  • fitted
  • five-star
  • foremost
  • fortunately
  • four-star
  • frontline
  • galactic
  • gallant
  • game
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gargantuan
  • geeked
  • genteel
  • gentle
  • gentlemanly
  • gifted
  • gigantic
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glad
  • glorified
  • glorious
  • gloriously
  • gone
  • good
  • goodly
  • grand
  • grandly
  • gratifyingly
  • greatest
  • greathearted
  • greedy
  • grievous
  • groovy
  • gross
  • gung ho
  • habile
  • handsome
  • handsomely
  • handy
  • hankering
  • happily
  • happy
  • heavenly
  • hefty
  • hellacious
  • helpfully
  • hepped up
  • herculean
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • high
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-level
  • high-minded
  • high-test
  • highborn
  • highbred
  • highest
  • highly regarded
  • honorable
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • huge
  • hulking
  • humongous
  • humungous
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • husky
  • hype
  • idealistic
  • illustrious
  • immense
  • immoderate
  • impatient
  • important
  • impressive
  • inclined
  • incomparable
  • influential
  • inordinate
  • inspiring
  • interested
  • interminable
  • invitingly
  • jim-dandy
  • juiced
  • jumbo
  • keen
  • key
  • king-size
  • king-sized
  • kingly
  • knightly
  • knowledgeable
  • ladylike
  • large
  • largish
  • leading
  • lengthy
  • leviathan
  • lofty
  • long
  • long-drawn
  • long-drawn-out
  • long-lived
  • long-term
  • longing
  • longish
  • lordly
  • lovely
  • luckily
  • magnanimous
  • magnificent
  • magnificently
  • main
  • majestic
  • major
  • major-league
  • mammoth
  • marathon
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • marvelously
  • massive
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • matchless
  • mean
  • mighty
  • momentous
  • monolithic
  • monstrous
  • monumental
  • mountainous
  • moving
  • multiday
  • multiskilled
  • multitalented
  • multiyear
  • natural
  • neat
  • nicely
  • nifty
  • noble
  • nonpareil
  • notable
  • noted
  • noteworthy
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • numerous
  • numinous
  • nuts
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • old
  • out of sight
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • outstanding
  • overbearing
  • overlong
  • overmastering
  • overriding
  • oversize
  • oversized
  • palatably
  • par excellence
  • paramount
  • passable
  • patrician
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • peerless
  • permanent
  • persistent
  • pharaonic
  • phat
  • pining
  • pleasantly
  • pleasingly
  • pleasurably
  • plentiful
  • polished
  • powerful
  • practiced
  • practised
  • predominant
  • preeminent
  • premier
  • premium
  • prestigious
  • prettily
  • primal
  • primary
  • prime
  • primo
  • princely
  • principal
  • prior
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • prodigious
  • professed
  • proficient
  • prolonged
  • prominent
  • protracted
  • puissant
  • pumped
  • qualified
  • quality
  • queenly
  • rad
  • radical
  • raring
  • ready
  • refined
  • regal
  • remarkable
  • renowned
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • roomy
  • royal
  • satisfactory
  • satisfyingly
  • schooled
  • select
  • senior
  • sensational
  • sensationally
  • signal
  • significant
  • silk-stocking
  • sizable
  • sizeable
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • slick
  • solicitous
  • sovereign
  • sovran
  • spacious
  • special
  • splendid
  • splendidly
  • staggering
  • standard
  • star
  • stately
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stoked
  • strong
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • substantial
  • super
  • super-duper
  • superb
  • superbly
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supersized
  • supreme
  • sure-handed
  • surpassing
  • sweetly
  • swell
  • swimmingly
  • talented
  • taught
  • temptingly
  • terrific
  • thick
  • thirsty
  • tidy
  • tip-top
  • titanic
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • towering
  • traditional
  • trained
  • transcendent
  • tremendous
  • tutored
  • unequaled
  • unequalled
  • unparalleled
  • unreluctant
  • unsurpassed
  • unusual
  • uplifting
  • upper-class
  • upper-crust
  • valiant
  • vast
  • vasty
  • venerable
  • versed
  • veteran
  • virtuoso
  • voluminous
  • voracious
  • walloping
  • welcomely
  • well
  • well-rounded
  • wellborn
  • whacking
  • whopping
  • wild
  • willing
  • winningly
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • wonderfully
  • workmanlike
  • worthy

ideally

  • admirably
  • alluringly
  • appealingly
  • attractively
  • bewitchingly
  • celestially
  • charmingly
  • correctly
  • cutely
  • delightfully
  • divinely
  • elegantly
  • entrancingly
  • excellently
  • exceptionally
  • exquisitely
  • fabulously
  • fancily
  • faultlessly
  • finely
  • fitly
  • flawlessly
  • gorgeously
  • gracefully
  • grandly
  • greatly
  • handsomely
  • immaculately
  • impeccably
  • magnificently
  • marvelously
  • pat
  • perfectly
  • prettily
  • seductively
  • specially
  • splendidly
  • sublimely
  • superbly
  • superiorly
  • superlatively
  • supremely
  • tastefully
  • terrifically
  • to a T
  • to a nicety
  • to a turn
  • to perfection
  • to the nines
  • wonderfully

kindheartedly

  • affably
  • affectionately
  • agreeably
  • altruistically
  • amiably
  • amply
  • appreciatively
  • attentively
  • beneficently
  • benevolently
  • benignantly
  • bigheartedly
  • bounteously
  • bountifully
  • charitably
  • charmingly
  • cheerfully
  • cheerily
  • civilly
  • compassionately
  • compatibly
  • concernedly
  • congenially
  • considerately
  • cordially
  • courteously
  • elegantly
  • emotionally
  • feelingly
  • freehandedly
  • freeheartedly
  • friendlily
  • gallantly
  • generously
  • genially
  • gently
  • good-heartedly
  • good-naturedly
  • gracefully
  • graciously
  • handsomely
  • harmoniously
  • heartily
  • hospitably
  • humanely
  • ingratiatingly
  • kindly
  • lavishly
  • liberally
  • magnanimously
  • munificently
  • nicely
  • openhandedly
  • perceptively
  • philanthropically
  • reasonably
  • respectfully
  • responsively
  • selflessly
  • sociably
  • softheartedly
  • solicitously
  • sweetly
  • tactfully
  • thoughtfully
  • understandingly
  • ungrudgingly
  • unselfishly
  • unstintingly
  • urbanely
  • warmheartedly
  • warmly
  • well
  • winningly

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