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one-handed

one-handed

14 2.0
Made or done using only one hand
  • adjective
  • /ˈwʌnˌhændɪd/
translation icon : con una mano
  • In the morning, Owen cracks eggs one-handed into my iron skillet.
  • one-handed catch
  • one-handed grab
  • one-handed backhand

And also it's one handed, so you can do all the action like this with one hand.

Examples

  • All right, ready one handed with that wrist guard actually works so well.

  • Which is much easier than one-handed teaching with a baby on your lap.

    Blog text (3)
  • I can use this one handed and with no real issue, and this is a bigger phone.

  • So this is designed to be used one handed spring loaded.

  • At the plate, Job learned to bunt one-handed and usually beat the throw to first.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • These are speed clamps, so you can operate them one handed and draw them in and clamp stuff down.

  • Virtually every daring pass is one-handed; the best weren't afraid to use 'em.

    Blog text (21)
  • I backed the Buick to turn, steering one-handed, and peered along the road.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Lifting one foot at a time, he stripped off his stockings one-handed and tossed them onto the bedroom stool.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I can use this phone with one-handed controls, making it easier to text while walking.

Antonyms

3 4.0

Needing both hands or two people to use it

How Many

two-handed
3 4.0
one-handed
14 2.0
handless
7.4

Surface Forms

one-handed positive

Morphology

one-handed = handed (transparent) = one + hand + ed

The adjective is directly formed by attaching the numeral 'one' to 'handed' (hand + -ed), giving the clear meaning 'using one hand'.

Etymology

The word one-handed is made of one- ('one') and handed (from 'hand'), like in right-handed or left-handed, and it gives a clear picture of doing something with just a single hand, so it means 'using or done with only one hand'.