hands

The word “hands” has 1 syllable: hands

It's pronounced as /hændz/

What is synonym and antonym for hands?

In the thesaurus, “hands” has 144 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for hands along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for hands

administers
administration
advances
aggregation
allocates
apportions
arm
assemblage
assigns
authority
band
bears
bequeaths
bevy
bucks
bunch
carries
cedes
claiming
claws
cluster
clutch
collaring
collection
command
commandeering
commends
commits
company
complement
confers
confides
confiscation
congregation
consigns
control
corps
covey
crowd
custody
deeds
delegates
delivers
direction
dispenses
disperses
distributes
divides
doles out
domination
dominion
enjoyment
entrusts
faction
feeds
fingers
furnishes
gang
gives
gives over
gives up
governance
government
grants
grasp
grip
guidance
handles
hands down
hands in
hands on
hands over
helm
herd
hold
horde
intrusts
jurisdiction
keeping
leaves
lends
loans
lot
makes over
management
mastery
might
mob
operation
organization
oversight
ownership
pack
party
passes
paws
portions
posse
possession
power
procurement
proprietorship
prorates
provides
reaches
recommends
recommits
redelivers
regulation
relays
releases
relinquishes
renders
reposes
repossession
retention
retinue
retransfers
retransmits
running
sailors
sect
set
squad
submits
superintendence
supervision
supplies
surrenders
swarm
sway
team
transfers
transmits
troop
troupe
trusts
turns in
turns over
vests
wills
workers
working party
yields

Antonyms for hands

accepts
conserves
detains
dispossession
helplessness
holds
holds back
impotence
impotency
individual
keeps
keeps up
maintains
misconception
misunderstanding
nonpossession
occupies
one
owns
possesses
powerlessness
preserves
receives
release
relinquishment
reserves
retains
saves
surrendering
takes
takes in
takes over
transferal
weakness
withholds

Meanings of hands

noun
1. The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
2. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
3. In linear measurement:.
4. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
5. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
6. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.
7. An instance of helping.
8. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
9. A person's autograph or signature.
10. Personal possession; ownership.
11. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
12. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
13. Applause.
14. A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
15. The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
16. A whole rhizome of ginger.
17. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
18. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
19. Agency in transmission from one person to another.
20. Rate; price.
verb
1. To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
2. To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
3. To manage.
4. To seize; to lay hands on.
5. To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
6. (said of a sail) To furl.
7. To cooperate.

Example Sentences

She washed her hands before sitting down to eat.
The children raised their hands to answer the question.
He had cold hands after being outside in the snow.
The artist used his hands to shape the clay into a beautiful sculpture.
She clapped her hands to get everyone's attention.

On this page you'll find 179 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hands, such as: accepts, administers, administration, advances, aggregation, allocates, apportions.

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