Handsome vs. Smart

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Handsomeadjective

(of people, things, etc) Having a good appearance; good-looking.

Handsomeadjective

(of a man or boy) Visually attractive; pleasant looking, good-looking. Examples contradict label. Also, it seems to me that Austen uses "handsome" about women synonymously with "beautiful", so maybe that is an obsolete sense?

Handsomeadjective

(of a woman) Striking, impressive and elegantly proportioned, though not typically beautiful.

Handsomeadjective

Good, appealing, appropriate.

Handsomeadjective

(of weather) Fine, clear and bright.

Handsomeadjective

Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.

Handsomeadjective

Generous or noble in character.

Handsomeadjective

Ample; moderately large.

Handsomeadjective

Dexterous; skillful.

Handsomeverb

To render handsome.

Handsomeadjective

Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; - applied to things as persons.

Handsomeadjective

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.

Handsomeadjective

Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.

Handsomeadjective

Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.

Handsomeadjective

Ample; moderately large.

Handsomeverb

To render handsome.

Handsomeadjective

pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion;

Handsomeadjective

given or giving freely;

Smartverb

(intransitive) To hurt or sting.

Smartverb

(transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.

Smartverb

(intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

Smartadjective

Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.

Smartadjective

(informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.

Smartadjective

Equipped with digital/computer technology.

Smartadjective

Good-looking.

Smartadjective

Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.

Smartadjective

Sudden and intense.

Smartadjective

Causing sharp pain; stinging.

Smartadjective

Sharp; keen; poignant.

Smartadjective

Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.

Smartadjective

(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

Smartadjective

(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.

Smartadjective

(archaic) Brisk; fresh.

Smartnoun

A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.

Smartnoun

Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.

Smartnoun

Smart-money.

Smartnoun

A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

Smartverb

To feel a lively, pungent local pain; - said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

Smartverb

To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.

Smartverb

To cause a smart in.

Smartnoun

Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.

Smartnoun

Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

Smartnoun

A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.

Smartnoun

Smart money (see below).

Smartadjective

Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

Smartadjective

Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.

Smartadjective

Vigorous; sharp; severe.

Smartadjective

Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.

Smartadjective

Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

Smartadjective

Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.

Smartadjective

Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.

Smartadjective

Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

Smartnoun

a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

Smartverb

be the source of pain

Smartadjective

showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

Smartadjective

elegant and stylish;

Smartadjective

characterized by quickness and ease in learning;

Smartadjective

improperly forward or bold;

Smartadjective

marked by smartness in dress and manners;

Smartadjective

(of a person) clean, tidy, and well dressed

Smartadjective

(of clothes) attractively neat and stylish

Smartadjective

(of an object) bright and fresh in appearance

Smartadjective

(of a place) fashionable and upmarket

Smartadjective

having or showing a quick-witted intelligence

Smartadjective

(of a device) programmed so as to be capable of some independent action

Smartadjective

showing impertinence by making clever or sarcastic remarks

Smartadjective

quick; brisk

Smartverb

(of part of the body) feel a sharp stinging pain

Smartverb

feel upset and annoyed

Smartnoun

sharp stinging pain

Smartnoun

mental pain or suffering

Smartnoun

intelligence; acumen

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