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forehanded

forehanded

7.0
A racket hit when the palm faces the way the ball goes
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrˌhændɪd/
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  • In tennis, she perfected her forehanded stroke to win the championship match.

Examples

  • For example, Maddox and colleagues (1999) found that participants who first practiced a backhanded tennis swing while focusing on the trajectory of the ball were later more successful at forehanded swings than participants who focused on the ball-racket contact point.

    Academic text (2011)

  • To improve her gameplay, she worked on her forehanded shots during practice.

  • His forehanded serves were powerful and accurate throughout the tournament.

Synonyms

forehand
vsforehanded
3.3

A stroke that uses the palm to hit the ball in tennis or badminton

has the same meaning but uses different wording

Surface Forms

forehanded positive

Morphology

forehanded = forehand (transparent) = forehand + ed

Derived directly from the sports noun 'forehand' with the adjectival suffix '-ed', so the meaning relating to the forehand stroke is predictable.

Etymology

Forehanded comes from fore- meaning 'front' and hand, so it names a stroke made with the hand in front of you — the palm faces the direction of the hit, as in a tennis forehand.