单词 | openhanded |
释义 | openhanded (once / 84424 pages) adj Your openhanded uncle can't resist giving money to anyone who asks for it — openhanded means generous. People who are openhanded give freely and kindly, whether they're donating money, giving gifts, or offering help. While you can use the adjective openhanded for many kinds of generosity, it's used most often to refer specifically to money and a person's willingness to part with it. The word has been around since about 1600, and it can be spelled with a hyphen or as two words — open handed — as well as one. WORD FAMILYopenhanded: openhandedly, openhandedness USAGE EXAMPLESIndeed, it’s likely that the very nature of the challenge, which belongs to a category known to anthropologists as “extreme ritual,” made people more openhanded. The New Yorker(Jul 18, 2016) The music and the history he carried in his heart and gave to us in the most openhanded way will long be remembered. Time(May 16, 2015) His style is emphatic and behind the beat, but openhanded; harmonically and rhythmically astute, but a little bit free. New York Times(Dec 12, 2014) adj given or giving freely her fond and openhanded grandfather Syn big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal generous willing to give and share unstintingly |
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