handed

English

Etymology

From hand +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhændɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhændəd/

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• Rhymes: -ændɪd
• Hyphenation: hand‧ed

Adjective

handed (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a certain kind or number of hands.
3. (informal) Synonym of chiral.
4. (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
   • 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]:

     As poisonous tongued as handed

5. (obsolete) With hands joined; hand in hand.
   • 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

     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.

   • 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:

     Into their inmost bower, / Handed they went.

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
• 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

 

Translations

with hands joined — see hand in hand

having a peculiar or characteristic hand

• Finnish: kätinen

Verb

handed

1. simple past and past participle of hand

Anagrams

• Hadden