handy
The word “handy” has 2 syllables: hand-y
It's pronounced as /ˈhæn.di/
What is synonym and antonym for handy?
In the thesaurus, “handy” has 74 synonyms and 54 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for handy along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for handy
- able
- abutting
- accessible
- adaptable
- adept
- adjacent
- adjoining
- adroit
- advantageous
- agile
- approachable
- at hand
- attainable
- available
- beneficial
- capable
- central
- clever
- close
- close-at-hand
- close-by
- competent
- convenient
- coordinated
- cunning
- deft
- dexterous
- dextrous
- double-jointed
- expert
- fit
- flexible
- functional
- gainful
- getatable
- graceful
- habile
- helpful
- ingenious
- limber
- lissom
- lissome
- lithe
- lithesome
- loose-jointed
- manageable
- masterful
- masterly
- near
- near-at-hand
- nearby
- neat
- nigh
- nimble
- obtainable
- on hand
- practicable
- practical
- proficient
- profitable
- qualified
- reachable
- ready
- serviceable
- skilled
- skillful
- spry
- sure-handed
- to hand
- ultraconvenient
- useful
- utile
- wieldy
- within reach
Antonyms for handy
- away
- awkward
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clumsy
- disadvantageous
- distant
- far
- far-off
- faraway
- fumbling
- gauche
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-fisted
- ham-handed
- handless
- hard
- heavy-handed
- impossible
- inaccessible
- incapable
- incompetent
- inconvenient
- inconveniently
- inept
- inexpert
- klutzy
- maladroit
- remote
- removed
- rough-hewn
- stiff
- stilted
- unapproachable
- unattainable
- unavailable
- uncomfortable
- uncoordinated
- uneasy
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unhandy
- unobtainable
- unreachable
- unskilled
- unsuitable
- untouchable
- untrained
- unworkable
- useless
- wooden
- worthless
Meanings of handy
- adjective
- Easy to use, useful.
- Nearby, within reach.
- Of a person: dexterous, skilful.
- Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
- Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
- noun
- A hand job.
- A handgun.
Example Sentences
- This tool is very handy for fixing small appliances around the house.
- She always keeps a notebook handy to jot down her ideas.
- The guidebook proved to be quite handy during their trip to the mountains.
- Having a flashlight handy in case of power outages is always a good idea.
- He’s a handy person to have around when something needs repairing.
On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to handy, such as: able, abutting, accessible, adaptable, adept, adjacent, adjoining.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
abutting
- abreast
- across the street
- adjacent
- adjoining
- after
- along toward
- alongside
- ambient
- approaching
- approximal
- approximate
- around
- around the corner
- at close quarters
- at hand
- attached
- available
- back-to-back
- beside
- bordering
- bordering on
- bounding
- burning
- circumjacent
- close
- close shave
- close-at-hand
- close-by
- closest
- coming
- communicating
- connected
- connecting
- consequent
- contacting
- contactual
- conterminous
- contiguous
- convenient
- converging
- coterminous
- edging
- embracing
- encircling
- enclosing
- encompassing
- ensuing
- fencing
- flanking
- flush
- following
- fringing
- give or take a little
- handy
- hard by
- immediate
- imminent
- impending
- impinging
- in close proximity
- in spitting distance
- in the ball park
- inclosing
- interconnecting
- joined
- joining
- juxtaposed
- juxtapositional
- later
- lining
- linked
- marginal
- margining
- meeting
- near
- near-at-hand
- nearby
- nearest
- nearly
- neighboring
- next
- next door
- next door to
- next to
- next-door
- nigh
- not remote
- on the edge of
- on the side
- peripheral
- practically
- proximal
- proximate
- ready
- rimming
- side-by-side
- skirting
- subsequent
- succeeding
- surrounding
- tangent
- tangential
- touching
- united
- verging
- vincinal
- warm
accessible
- abutting
- acquirable
- adjacent
- adjoining
- affordable
- apprehensible
- approachable
- appropriable
- articulate
- at hand
- at the ready
- attainable
- available
- bargain-basement
- budget
- cheap
- close
- coherent
- common
- comprehendible
- comprehensible
- convenient
- decipherable
- discount
- employable
- exposed
- fathomable
- fluent
- free
- free-for-all
- furnished
- getatable
- graspable
- handy
- inexpensive
- intelligible
- legible
- low
- low-end
- moderate
- modest
- near
- nearby
- nigh
- obtainable
- omnipresent
- on file
- on hand
- on tap
- open
- operative
- plain
- popular
- possible
- practicable
- prevalent
- procurable
- provided
- public
- purchasable
- reachable
- reasonable
- rentable
- rock-bottom
- scrutable
- simple
- straightforward
- supplied
- susceptible
- to hand
- ubiquitous
- ultraconvenient
- understandable
- universal
- unrestricted
- usable
- well-spoken
- widespread
accommodating
- abetting
- acclimating
- acclimatizing
- accommodative
- accustoming
- acquainting
- adapting
- adjusting
- agreeable
- aiding
- aligning
- alining
- altering
- amenable
- appeasing
- arranging
- arraying
- assisting
- attending
- attuning
- balancing
- barracking
- bending
- bestowing
- billeting
- bivouacking
- blending
- boarding
- bunking
- camping
- carrying
- chambering
- coddling
- combining
- comforting
- complaisant
- conciliating
- conditioning
- conforming
- connecting
- considerate
- containing
- converting
- cooperative
- coordinating
- correcting
- correlating
- customizing
- delighting
- doctoring
- domiciling
- dovetailing
- editing
- encamping
- enclosing
- encompassing
- enfolding
- ensconcing
- equalizing
- equipping
- establishing
- evening
- familiarizing
- fashioning
- favoring
- fine-tuning
- fitting
- friendly
- fusing
- gearing
- generous
- gladdening
- gracious
- gratifying
- habilitating
- habituating
- handy
- harboring
- hardening
- harmonizing
- helpful
- helping
- holding
- homing
- hospitable
- housing
- humoring
- inclosing
- indulgent
- indulging
- integrating
- inuring
- joining
- keying
- kind
- lenient
- lodging
- making over
- matching
- merging
- modeling
- modelling
- modifying
- mollifying
- mollycoddling
- naturalizing
- neighborly
- obliging
- on deck
- on tap
- orchestrating
- ordering
- orientating
- orienting
- overindulgent
- pacifying
- pairing
- pampering
- patterning
- permissive
- phasing
- placating
- pleasing
- polite
- preparing
- priming
- proportioning
- putting
- putting up
- quartering
- readapting
- readjusting
- readying
- recasting
- reclaiming
- reconciling
- recycling
- redesigning
- redeveloping
- redoing
- reengineering
- refashioning
- refiguring
- refitting
- refocusing
- registering
- regularizing
- regulating
- rehearsing
- reinventing
- rejiggering
- relieving
- remaking
- remodeling
- revamping
- revising
- reworking
- rigging
- roofing
- rooming
- roosting
- rooting
- satisfying
- seasoning
- seating
- securing
- settling
- shaping
- shedding
- sheltering
- solicitous
- squaring
- stabling
- standardizing
- succoring
- suiting
- supporting
- synchronizing
- synthesizing
- tailoring
- taking
- taking in
- tenting
- thoughtful
- toughening
- training
- transforming
- tuning
- unifying
- uniting
- unselfish
- user friendly
accomplished
- able
- absolute
- ace
- aced
- achieved
- actualized
- adept
- adroit
- all-around
- all-round
- attained
- bourgeois
- brainy
- brought about
- brought off
- capable
- carried off
- carried out
- cerebral
- certain
- civil
- civilized
- clear
- clever
- committed
- compassed
- competent
- compleat
- complete
- completed
- conclusive
- consummate
- cool
- cosmopolitan
- courteous
- couth
- crack
- crackerjack
- cultivated
- cultured
- decisive
- definite
- deft
- dexterous
- dextrous
- did
- educated
- effected
- effective
- effectual
- effectuated
- efficient
- employable
- ended
- erudite
- executed
- experienced
- expert
- finished
- fit
- fitted
- fulfilled
- genteel
- gifted
- good
- great
- habile
- hands-down
- handy
- hep
- high-toned
- highbrow
- highbrowed
- hip
- hypercivilized
- implemented
- inarguable
- incontestable
- incontrovertible
- indisputable
- indubitable
- intellectual
- intellectualist
- intellectualistic
- irrefragable
- irrefutable
- knowledgeable
- learned
- literate
- long-term
- made
- mannerly
- master
- masterful
- masterly
- middlebrow
- multiskilled
- multitalented
- nailed
- negotiated
- old
- overcivilized
- oversophisticated
- performed
- perpetrated
- polished
- polite
- positive
- practiced
- practised
- professed
- proficient
- prosecuted
- pulled off
- put through
- qualified
- realized
- reduplicated
- reenacted
- refined
- repeated
- savvy
- scholarly
- schooled
- sharp
- skilled
- skillful
- slick
- sophisticated
- sure
- sure-handed
- talented
- taught
- trained
- tutored
- unambiguous
- unanswerable
- unarguable
- unchallengeable
- uncontested
- uncontradicted
- undeniable
- undisputed
- unequivocal
- unquestionable
- unquestioned
- urbane
- versed
- veteran
- virtuoso
- well-bred
- well-read
- well-rounded
- went through
- winded up
- wised up
- with it
- workmanlike
- wound up
banausic
- accessible
- acquisitive
- actionable
- active
- alive
- all-around
- all-round
- applicable
- applicative
- applied
- arid
- available
- banal
- blah
- bland
- boring
- bromidic
- busy
- carnal
- civil
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dim
- dime a dozen
- down-to-earth
- drab
- dreary
- droning
- dull
- dull as dishwater
- earthly
- earthly-minded
- earthy
- employed
- everyday
- flat
- flat as pancake
- fleshly
- formal
- functional
- functioning
- garden-variety
- greedy
- handy
- heavy
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- labored
- lay
- lifeless
- material
- materialistic
- mediocre
- monotone
- monotonous
- mortal
- mundane
- nonsacred
- nonspiritual
- nothing
- object-oriented
- obtainable
- operating
- operative
- ordinary
- pedantic
- pedestrian
- physical
- platitudinous
- plodding
- ponderous
- possessive
- practicable
- practical
- pragmatic
- pragmatical
- profane
- prosaic
- prosy
- puts one to sleep
- reachable
- recurrent
- reiterated
- repetitious
- repetitive
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- samely
- secular
- sensual
- serviceable
- sing-song
- soporific
- staid
- stodgy
- subcelestial
- sublunary
- tedious
- temporal
- terrestrial
- tiresome
- toneless
- treadmill
- truistic
- turgid
- ultrapractical
- unchanged
- unchanging
- unexciting
- unhallowed
- uniform
- unimaginative
- uninflected
- uninspired
- uninteresting
- unrelieved
- unsacred
- unsanctified
- unspiritual
- unvaried
- unvarying
- usable
- useable
- useful
- utilitarian
- vanilla
- wearisome
- wearying
- weighty
- white-bread
- wishy-washy
- workable
- working
- yawn producing