Antonyms for handful
ˈhænd fʊlhand·ful

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1. handfulnoun

   Synonyms:
   handsbreadth, handbreadth, fistful

2. handfulnoun

   As much as the hand will grasp or contain. - Joseph Addison

   Synonyms:
   handbreadth, fistful, handsbreadth

3. handfulnoun

   A hand's breadth; four inches.

   Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. - Francis Bacon

   Synonyms:
   handsbreadth, handbreadth, fistful

4. handfulnoun

   A small quantity, usually approximately equal to five, the number of fingers on a hand.

   This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. - Fuller

   Synonyms:
   fistful, handsbreadth, handbreadth

5. handfulnoun

   Something which can only be managed with difficulty.

   Those twins are a real handful to look after.

   Synonyms:
   fistful, handbreadth, handsbreadth

Matched Categories

1. • Containerful
   • Small Indefinite Quantity

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. handful, smatteringnoun

   a small number or amount

   "only a handful of responses were received"

   Synonyms:
   smattering, fistful

2. handful, fistfulnoun

   the quantity that can be held in the hand

   Synonyms:
   smattering, fistful

How to use handful in a sentence?

1. Bob Woodson:

   A handful of people, blacks, something under 20 in the course of a year are unarmed or killed by police and 6,000 killed by other blocks, and yet we only hear the names of those taken by police.

2. Prabhakar Raghavan:

   With generative AI, we can already automate 360-degree spins of sneakers from just a handful of still photos, something that would have previously required merchants to use hundreds of product photos and costly technology, as we look ahead, you could imagine how generative AI will enable people to interact with visual information in entirely new ways.

3. Sean McVay:

   I feel really grateful for these five years, has it accelerated my aging? Yes. It’s like dog years. But I love every second of it. But I definitely feel like I’ve aged a lot more than five years over the last handful of seasons.

4. T. S. Eliot:

   I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

5. Steven Mnuchin:

   I think there's a lot of issues we are close to a compromise position on, and I think there's a handful of very big issues that we are still very far apart, i don't know what she's talking about.

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