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Meaning of "handiest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HANDIEST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HANDIEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Handiest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HANDIEST

handhold
handicap
handicap register
handicapped
handicapper
handicapping
handicraft
handicrafter
handicraftsman
handier
handily
handiness
handism
handiwork
handjar
handjob
handkercher
handkerchief
handlanger
handle

WORDS THAT END LIKE HANDIEST

at the earliest
bendiest
bloodiest
cloudiest
foolhardiest
gaudiest
greediest
hardiest
moodiest
muddiest
neediest
readiest
rowdiest
seediest
shadiest
speediest
steadiest
sturdiest
tidiest
trendiest
windiest

Synonyms and antonyms of handiest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HANDIEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «handiest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of handiest

Translation of «handiest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HANDIEST

Find out the translation of handiest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of handiest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «handiest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

最方便
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

handiest
570 millions of speakers

English

handiest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

handiest
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أكثر فائدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

удобная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

handiest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

handiest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plus pratique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Handiest
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

handlichsten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

最も便利な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

handiest
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Handiest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiện lợi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

handiest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सर्वात मोठी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

handiest
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

più comodo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

handiest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зручна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mai la îndemână
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πιο εύχρηστο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

handigste
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

handiest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

handiest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of handiest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HANDIEST»

The term «handiest» is regularly used and occupies the 79.774 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HANDIEST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about handiest

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANDIEST»

Discover the use of handiest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to handiest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Handiest Things in the World
The work done by hands centuries and centuries ago has paved the way for many of our favorite and most useful tools. The always clever Andrew Clements reminds us all that the mother of much invention is right at our fingertips.
Andrew Clements, 2010
2
The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn"
"Whichever come handiest at the time" — that explains the situational Twain world. "Whichever" it is, it "come" by itself; that is, behavior is determined. It "come handiest": behavior obeys simple laws. It "come handiest at the time": behavior is  ...
George C. Carrington, 1976
3
Gas Age
All his life he had been watching for the handiest way, and then picking it out as his way of doing that particular thing now and forever, one and inseparable. So the manager let him out to make room for a new man who didn't know quite so ...
‎1919
4
The Edge of Meaning
Huckleberry. Finn: Doing. Whichever. Come. Handiest. at. the. Time. Like Walden , Huckleberry Finn is a story about a person at the margins of his world, trying to establish a position from which, and a voice with which, he can speak. Huck is in  ...
James Boyd White, 2003
5
The Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VIII. Troilus ...
I tell thee, I am mad In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair;' Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice, Handiest in thy discourse, O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing  ...
William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, 1865
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
f.5 Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice, Handiest in thy discourse, O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is ...
William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, 1894
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The works of William Shakespeare
I tell thee, I am mad In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair;' Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice, Handiest in thy discourse, O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing  ...
William Shakespeare, J. Ellis Burdick, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1909
8
The Works of William Shakespeare: Preface to the first ...
Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice, Handiest in thy discourse, 0, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink 55 Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is  ...
William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, 1892
9
The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
In whose comparison 9 all whites are ink, • — Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait ; her voice, Handiest in thy discourse :—0 that her hand! Jn •whose comparison, &C. j There is no reason why Troilus ...
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, 1785
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Handiest tool you can have in you shop
Handiest. Tool. You. Can. Have. in. Your. Shop. ON ALL does a OUTSIDE EDGES machine's 1 -in. abrasive belt slick job, but it can't do internal sanding IF YOU HAVE A SPARE V4-hp motor with a V2-in. shaft sitting around and $20 burning a ...
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANDIEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term handiest is used in the context of the following news items.
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Home cooking: You don't have to start from scratch | The Charlotte …
Try not to gasp when we suggest this: The handiest cooking skill these days may not be cooking at all. It's gathering. From souped-up salad ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»
2
Tree mail, start-ups, and baby-step savings: Darragh Doyle on the …
Bargain Alerts is probably the handiest of the features - when you key in your favourite products, you'll get an alert when it's on special offer in any of the retailers ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jul 15»
3
Do These Bike Gadgets Keep You Safer Or Just Re-Enforce The …
The handiest idea in the lineup is the simplest. Made for users of urban bike-sharing schemes, its a little widget that clips onto the handlebars ... «Co.Exist, Jul 15»
4
SanDisk Creates a Wireless Flash Drive That Will Work With All of …
But, with mobile device usage having ballooned and left full-sized USB ports behind, the old flash drive maybe isn't the handiest storage device ... «Chip Chick, Jul 15»
5
Town Council Update: Extended Summer Library Hours, Discusses …
The team was given the award for handiest poster, which they were really happy about. Forstenhausler's own daughter made the poster and ... «TAPinto.net, Jul 15»
6
Survival of the handiest
Commencement speakers often contend the young graduates of today can look forward to a “bright future” now that they have their high school ... «Columbia Daily Herald, Jul 15»
7
'Ant-Guy': Wonder's First Giant Bomb
They're glimpses of what a bold auteurist tackle a Surprise assets would possibly seem like (one thing handiest spied ahead of within the ... «New York Recorder, Jul 15»
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Mavericks spurned once more through any other height loose agent …
Now their handiest middle is Satnam Singh Bhamara, a second-round draft select from India. There are few, if any, facilities of observe ... «New York Recorder, Jul 15»
9
As the Worm Turns: Chicken grit
One of the handiest commodities I use in the garden is #2 chicken grit. Because it's not water soluble, chicken grit is excellent for growing ... «Zumbrota News-Record, Jul 15»
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Recipe for potato-rosemary tart with ricotta
One of the cook's handiest freezer items — frozen puff pastry — forms the base of this impressive tart. Spread the uncooked dough with a ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»

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