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handy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of handy

1 situated within easy reach

  • keeps a box of tissue handy whenever she watches Romeo and Juliet on her home theater
Synonyms of handy

accessible, convenient, reachable
Words Related to handy

close, near, nearby, nigh

abutting, adjacent, adjoining

approachable, attainable, getatable, obtainable

ultraconvenient
Phrases Synonymous with handy

at hand, to hand
Near Antonyms of handy

away, distant, far, faraway, far-off, remote, removed

unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable
Antonyms of handy

inaccessible, inconvenient, unhandy, unreachable, untouchable

2 skillful with the hands

  • handy with a needle and thread
Synonyms of handy

clever, cunning, deft, dexterous (also dextrous)
Words Related to handy

agile, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, nimble, spry

coordinated

able, adept, capable, competent, expert, habile, masterful, masterly, proficient, qualified, skilled, skillful, sure-handed

double-jointed, loose-jointed
Near Antonyms of handy

awkward, bungling, clumsy, fumbling, gauche, gawky, graceless, klutzy, rough-hewn, stiff, stilted, uncomfortable, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful, wooden

uncoordinated

incapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert, maladroit
Antonyms of handy

butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, unhandy

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