handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɪd/
ipa: /ˈhændəd/
rhymes: -ændɪd
Etymology: From hand + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a certain kind or number of hands.
glosses: Synonym of chiral.
synonyms: word: chiral
examples: text: As poisonous tongued as handed
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
examples: text: yet now, if any two be but once handed in the Church, and have tasted in any sort the nuptiall bed, let them finde themselves never so mistak’n in their dispositions through any error, concealment, or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts, and constitutions, they can neither be to one another a remedy against lonelines, nor live in any union or contentment all their dayes, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weapon’d to the least possibility of sensuall enjoyment, be made, spight of antipathy to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomnes and despaire of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God establisht to that very end.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
text: Into their inmost bower, / Handed they went.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: With hands joined; hand in hand.
Derived terms: ambi-handed
back-handed
backhanded
back-handed compliment
bare-handed
barehanded
black-handed gibbon
bloody-handed
both-handed
brokenhanded
broken-handed
cack-handed
car-handed
catch red-handed
clean-handed
click-handed
closehanded
close-handed
coarsehanded
coarse-handed
cow-handed
cow handed
crabbed-handed
crosshanded
cross-handed
cross-handedness
dab-handed
deadhanded
dead-handed
deadly-handed
defthanded
deft-handed
delicate-handed
dirty-handed
double-handed
doublehanded
doughty-handed
dry-handed
either-handed
emptyhanded
empty-handed
evenhanded
even-handed
fair-handed
fairhanded
fast-handed
forehanded
fore-handed
fourhanded
four-handed
frank-handed
freehanded
free-handed
full-handed
gawk-handed
gentle-handed
get one's ass handed to one
glad-handed
gouty-handed
gripe-handed
gripple-handed
ham-handed
handedly
handedness
hard handed
hardhanded
hard-handed
have one's ass handed to one
heavy-handed
high-handed
hook-handed
horny-handed
Hundred-handed
hundred-handed
idle-handed
iron handed
ironhanded
iron-handed
kack-handed
katy-handed
keck-handed
lady-handed
large-handed
left-handed
lefthanded
left-handed cigarette
left-handed compliment
left-handed path
left-handed specialist
level-handed
light-handed
lily-handed
loose-handed
lusty-handed
many-handed
Marlborough-handed
mbi-handed
mighty-handed
million-handed
mob handed
mob-handed
molly-handed
myriad-handed
naked-handed
neat-handed
nimble-handed
numb-handed
off-handed
offhanded
one-handed
open-handed
over-handed
overhanded
partan-handed
pink-handed
powerful-handed
quick-handed
ready-handed
red-handed
right-handed
right handed
right-handed path
room-handed
scram-handed
second-handed
secondhanded
shorthanded
short handed
short-handed
shovel-handed
side-handed
single-handed
single handed
slack-handed
sleight-handed
soft-handed
soft handed
spade-handed
spare-handed
steady-handed
strait-handed
strong-handed
sure-handed
sweet-handed
swift-handed
tender-handed
thousand-handed
three-handed
toom-handed
tway-handed
two-handed
under-handed
underhanded
up-handed
uphanded
weak-handed
well-handed
white-handed
white-handed gibbon
wide-handed
wing-handed
worldly-handed
yare-handed
Related terms: handless