Wide-handed
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Having hands that are wide.
"The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender, with long oval faces and narrow bony hands"
- 2 Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.
"It was a strange kind of clapping; a sort of wide-handed upward clap, compounded by the exaggerated nasal voice the hijras used in speech."
- 3 Characterized by hands held away from the torso.
"I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position."
- 4 Generous
"His songwriting success brought Yvain to the notice of wide-handed theatre magnate Gustave Quinson, who had produced Henri Christin6's Phi-Phi three years earlier and, in spite of the fact that the composer had not a full score to his name, Quinson signed him up to write three musicals."
- 1 In a wide-handed manner.
"Not such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds"
Example
More examples"The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender, with long oval faces and narrow bony hands"
Etymology
From wide + handed.
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