within easy reach; conveniently available; accessible: The aspirins are handy.
2.
convenient or useful: A typewriter is a handy thing to have in the house.
3.
skillful with the hands; deft; dexterous: a handy person.
4.
easily maneuvered: a handy ship.
Origin: 1275–1325; Middle English (in surnames); see hand, -y1
Related forms
hand·i·ness, noun
Synonyms 3. all-round; versatile. See dexterous.4. manageable, wieldy; yare.
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Handyis always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.