forehanded
/fɔːˈhandɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Executed with a forehand stroke.
adj
adv
With a forehand stroke.
Example Sentences
- "‘I dun'no' whether it air night or no,’ she said [...]. ‘I mought be too forehanded a-gittin' supper fur aught I kin tell.’"
- "First, a U.S. President is being forehanded for once. The new Common Market tariff structure has not yet begun to hurt our exporters (many of them, even more forehanded, have sought sanctuary by building new plants in Europe)."
- ""You're so forehanded that all your presents went a week ago, I suppose," Eleanor swept clear a chair."
- "The conditions of the old-time Salisbury hill-farm, which fed its owners on its spare-ribs and corn meal, and sweetened their taste with the crystallized sap of its maples, and which reckoned a man with a savings-bank account and a hundred stonewalled and unmortgaged acres "forehanded" if not positively rich, have ceased to be typical conditions of the American present-day prosperity."
- "...cause if you have, look at that forehanded man there, Deacon Westfall, and you see the rich man."
- "No, he is not poor at all. My father has got a good farm, and is quite forehanded."
Etymology
From forehand + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /fɔːˈhandɪd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more forehanded (comparative)
most forehanded (superlative)