handsome

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
handsome/ˈhansəm/

▶adjective (handsomer, handsomest)

• 1 (of a man) good-looking.

  ■ (of a woman) striking and imposing rather than conventionally pretty.

• 2 (of a thing) well made, imposing, and of obvious quality.

• 3 (of an amount) substantial.

– derivatives
handsomely adverb,
handsomeness noun.

– origin ME: from hand + -some1; the original sense was ‘easy to handle or use’, hence ‘apt, clever’.