handyadjective
uk/ˈhæn.di/us/ˈhæn.di/handy adjective (USEFUL)
C2 useful or convenient:
a handy container/tool
First-time visitors to France will find this guide particularly handy.
It's a nice house and it's handy for (= near) the train station.
informal Don't throw those bottles away - they'll come in handy (= be useful) for the picnic next Sunday.
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Useful or advantageous
- a pearl of great price idiom
- a place in the sun idiom
- advantageous
- all-singing
- amiss
- corrective
- expedient
- favourable
- fodder
- foil
- fruitful
- fruitfulness
- palliative
- profitable
- repay
- repay sb's effort, time, attention, etc. idiom
- respite
- salutary
- serviceable
- sniff
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handy adjective (SKILFUL)
[ after verb ] able to use something skilfully:
Jonathan's good at putting up wallpaper, but he's not so handy with a paintbrush.
Susannah's very handy (= good at doing things that need skilled use of the hands) about the house.
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Skilled, talented and able
- able
- ably
- accomplished
- adept
- adroit
- clutch
- expert
- gifted
- have a nice, good, etc. line in sth idiom
- have inner resources idiom
- have sth down to a fine art idiom
- intimate 1
- practised
- preen
- proficient
- proficiently
- qualified
- resource
- slick
- workmanlike
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