handsome vs pretty

handsome

adj
  • Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly 

  • Good, appealing, appropriate. 

  • Attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect. 

  • Fine, clear and bright. 

  • Ample; moderately large. 

  • Statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way. 

  • Generous or noble in character. 

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

pretty

adj
  • Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. 

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

  • Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. 

  • Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. 

  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

  • A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. 

adv
  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. 

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

How often have the words handsome and pretty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )