wide-handed

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having hands that are wide.
    — The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender, with long oval faces and narrow bony hands
  2. Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.
    — It was a strange kind of clapping; a sort of wide-handed upward clap, compounded by the exaggerated nasal voice the hijras used in speech.
  3. Characterized by hands held away from the torso.
    — I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position.
  4. Generous
    — His songwriting success brought Yvain to the notice of wide-handed theatre magnate Gustave Quinson, who had produced Henri Christin6's Phi-Phi three years earlier and, in spite of the fact that the composer had not a full score to his name, Quinson signed him up to write three musicals.
副词 adv.
  1. In a wide-handed manner.
    — Not such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds

词形变化

more wide-handed comparative most wide-handed superlative more wide-handed comparative most wide-handed superlative

词源

词源 1
From wide + handed.
词源 2
From wide + handed.
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