Handy

Adjective

 * 1) Easy to use, useful.
 * Some people regard duct tape as a handy fix-all.
 * 1) Nearby, within reach.
 * You wouldn’t have a screwdriver handy, would you?
 * 1)  dexterous, skilful
 * She's very handy - she made all her own kitchen cupboards.

Adverbs for Handy
extremely; providently; conveniently; exceptionally; remarkably; carefully; delightfully; cleverly; unusually; perfectly; uncommonly; thoughtfully; noticeably; incomparably; serviceably; advantageously; practically; appropriately; readily; ingeniously; miraculously.

Synonyms for Handy
at hand, near, convenient, available, useful, helpful, ready, ingenious,  inventive, clever, resourceful, dexterous, adept, able, apt, adroit.

Antonyms for Handy
unhandy, unskillful, clumsy, stupid.

Thesaurus
Daedalian, accessible, adaptable, adept, adjacent, adroit, agential, agentival, agentive, all-around, apt, artistic, assisting, at hand, authoritative, available, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, close by, close-by, compact, conducive, convenient, convenient to, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diminutive, diplomatic, ductile, duodecimo, easily reached, employable, excellent, expert, facilitating, fancy, favoring, feasible, flexible, foolproof, forwarding, good, goodish, graceful, helpful, ingenious, instrumental, intermediary, magisterial, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, masterful, masterly, mediating, mediatorial, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, ministerial, ministering, minuscule, nearby, neat, nimble, no mean, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, pliable, pliant, pocket, pocket-sized, politic, pony, practical, professional, proficient, promoting, propinquant, propinquous, quick, quite some, ready, ready at hand, resourceful, serviceable, skilled, skillful, slick, small-scale, some, statesmanlike, stylish, subminiature, subservient, tactful, the compleat, the complete, to hand, toy, tractable, twelvemo, untroublesome, usable, useful, versatile, vest-pocket, virtuoso, well-done, wieldable, wieldy, workmanlike, yielding

Etymology
From, alteration of earlier hendi:, from hendig: (as in listhendig:), from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with handich:,  handec:, hendec:,  hǫndugr:,  𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐌲𐍃:.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"h{n.di/}}

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: anstellig, handlich,
 * Interlingua: utile, commode
 * Italian: ,


 * Latin:
 * Persian: سودمند
 * Polish: wygodny, dogodny
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: nadomak
 * Spanish: ,


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: binnen handbereik, bij de hand
 * Finnish: käden ulottuvilla
 * French: à portée de main
 * German: in Reichweite, griffbereit, zur Hand


 * Hungarian: kéznél
 * Italian:
 * Persian: در دسترس
 * Polish: podręczny
 * Russian: под рукой
 * Spanish: a mano, cerca


 * Czech:
 * Persian: ماهر
 * Russian: ловкий, искусный


 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: hábil, diestro

Adjective

 * 1) handy
 * 2) dexterous, skilful
 * 3) amenable of an animal