handy

adjective

ˈhan-dē How to pronounce handy (audio)
Definition of handynext
1
as in convenient
situated within easy reach keeps a box of tissue handy whenever she watches Romeo and Juliet on her home theater

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2
as in skilled
skillful with the hands handy with a needle and thread

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Recent Examples of handy Amazon With a whopping 1 TB of storage, this handy SSD drive from SK Hynix is not much bigger than the other best USB Flash drives. — Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025 Read on to explore three of the fastest ways to lower your debt, plus learn some handy tips for lowering your account balances sooner rather than later. — Gabriel Rodríguez, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025 For Pedrosa the additional space for exhibitions will come in handy, not only to show MASP collections but also for showing temporary loan exhibitions. — Lise Alves, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025 Deep cleaning upholstery just got a whole lot easier with this handy home appliance, which is a longtime bestseller on Amazon. — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handy
  1. convenient
  2. skilled
  3. accessible
  4. clever
  5. capable
  6. skillful
  7. proficient
  8. cunning
Adjective
  • The useful Ambient Music for iPhone is now accessible directly from Control Center, which is much more convenient.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Most Locations Are Open 24/7 Fast food is all about convenience, and nothing says convenient like being open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of convenient
Adjective
  • However, even the most skilled clinicians can struggle if the technology is difficult to use.
    — Jiang Li, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • There will be beverages from New Belgium Brewery; a market featuring the wares of DTL’s skilled staff and teachers; tool demonstrations; and a raffle.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of skilled
Adjective
  • Rea said the city is committed to building the facility in a more accessible location, closer to the city center.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
  • These improvements and advancements will ensure that incentive discovery, application, compliance, and reporting are effortless and accessible, no matter the complexity, jurisdiction, industry, or size of the business.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of accessible
Adjective
  • The digital device is exhausted, the runtime stretches a tad too long, and a club scene that begins as an admirable feat (making clever use of the Music Box Theatre) begins to drag, before giving way to a crucial turning point in the story.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Later in the same game, Miami ran four verts with a clever outside receiver cross-field motion.
    — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of clever
Adjective
  • While Jerusalem values its ability to operate freely in Syrian airspace—thanks in part to the deconfliction mechanism with Russian commanders—that arrangement cannot come at the cost of allowing Hezbollah to build an arsenal capable of overwhelming Israel's defenses.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • An object reaching a 10 on the Torino Scale would be a collision capable of causing a global catastrophe.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of capable
Adjective
  • Hiring managers must learn to distinguish between misuse and skillful application to capture a candidate’s ability to tackle real-world challenges.
    — Bing Yu Yap, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • He is known for his skillful wedge game and a booming drive, but at Memorial Park, his whole game coalesced perfectly.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of skillful
Adjective
  • Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 Superintendent Theresa Plascencia is paid $345,000 a year, presiding over schools where just 16% of students are proficient in reading.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Only around one-third of students are proficient in these foundational skills needed to succeed in today's economy.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Definition of proficient
Adjective
  • Unlike Mitch McConnell, the taciturn and cunning leader at the time, Thune genuinely tried to answer questions.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But what Neil is accused of is something well beyond cunning or perfidy or faithlessness, well beyond questionable morality.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2025
Definition of cunning

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