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What is the adjective for handiness?

What's the adjective for handiness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb hand which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

handy
  1. Easy to use, useful.
  2. Nearby, within reach.
  3. (dialect) dexterous, skilful
  4. Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Some students may like to have a recorder handy into which they can speak their comments.”
      “Only 10 inches long, this handy vacuum cleaner stores in the glove compartment, ready to use.”
      “A small, spiral-bound notebook with hard covers makes a handy and easy-to-use guest book.”
handsy
  1. (informal) Prone to touching other people with one's hands, especially inappropriately.
  2. (golf) Moving the hands and wrists excessively when making a stroke or swing,
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The teen stars were photographed holding hands, laughing, and getting handsy with each other.”
      “She comes back and says that he got a bit too handsy for her, so she dumped him and walked out.”
      “Let's hope she doesn't mind her hubby getting handsy with the occasional party-goer.”
handed
  1. With hands joined; hand in hand.
  2. (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
handish
  1. (nonstandard) Of or relating to the hand; handly.
  2. (nonstandard) Like or resembling a hand, especially in form or appearance.
handyish
  1. (informal) Somewhat handy.
handier
handiest
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