openhanded

open·hand·ed

adj \-ˈhan-dəd\

Definition of OPENHANDED

: generous, munificent

— open·hand·ed·ly adverb

— open·hand·ed·ness noun

Examples of OPENHANDED

1. <in the aftermath of the disaster, many people were exceptionally openhanded with their donations to charity>

First Known Use of OPENHANDED

1593

Related to OPENHANDED

Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, fulsome, liberal, munificent, open, generous, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting

Antonyms: cheap, close, closefisted, costive, illiberal [archaic], mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, selfish, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous

Related Words: extravagant, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profuse; altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical); big, greathearted, largehearted, magnanimous, openhearted; compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindly, samaritan, sympathetic

Near Antonyms: mean, petty, small; frugal, spare, sparing, thrifty; chary, stinting; acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious; begrudging, envious, grudging, resentful

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Rhymes with OPENHANDED

doublehanded, empty-handed, evenhanded, heavy-handed, overhanded, underhanded