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surehanded

surehanded is the alternative form of sure-handed.

Meaning of sure-handed

Adjective

sure-handed

  1. Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task.
    • It was so cold that the ball clanked off the glove of the usually sure-handed Reds infielder for an error.2006, Bob Chandler, Bill Swank, Bob Chandler's Tales from the San Diego Padres, →ISBN, page 142
  2. Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.
    • And till we can recover that, we shall never be able to have a Government firm-seated and sure-handed.1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
  3. Skillfully executed.
    • Neither his sure-handed scoring, however, almost too sure-handed for a young man of twenty-five who is going to be a real composer, nor the diffuse and improvisatory character of the composition inspires the confidence in Mr. Bernstein's original gifts that this reviewer entertains towards his...1944 February 19, Virgil Thomson, edited by Tim Page, Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940–1954, published 2014, →ISBN

Forms of surehanded

comparativemore surehanded
superlativemost surehanded

Questions about surehanded

What is surehanded the alternative form of?
Surehanded is the alternative form of sure-handed.

Words near surehanded in the dictionary

  1. suredaite
  2. surefire
  3. surefooted
  4. surefootedly
  5. surefootedness
  6. surehanded
  7. surehandedly
  8. surehandedness
  9. Surekill Expressway
  10. surelier
  11. sureliest

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