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Another word for handy

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Adjective

  1. Exhibiting or possessing skill and ease in performance

    See also:

    ability

  2. Being within easy reach

    Idioms:
    See also:

    near

  3. Serving or capable of serving a useful purpose

    See also:

    used

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Another word for handy

Modifier

  1. Near

    See also:

    near

    convenient

  2. Useful

    See also:

    usable

    profitable

    helpful

  3. Dexterous

    See also:

    dexterous

    dexterous

    fit

    able

Idioms:

    come-in-handy

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • All that education might come in handy if we have trouble.

  • A cheap and handy edition of the text alone is that by A.

  • It would be handy when she studied to home school too.

  • Maybe his experience would come in handy on their wedding night.

  • It comes in handy when you have a younger brother.

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