Light-handed

Crosswords: Light-handed

English words defined with "light-handed": light-handedly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "light-handed": PERFORMANCE-BASEDREGULATION. (references)

"Light-handed" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Light-handed" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	66.67%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Language		Translations for "light-handed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me takt (diplomatic, discreet, tactful), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

Bulgarian		сръчен (able, adroit, agile, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, handy, ingenious, knacky, knowing, neat-handed, practised, pretty, skilful, skillful, smart, two-handed), с недостатъчно работна ръка (short handed), с недостатъчно персонал (short handed), с лека ръка, необременен (unencumbered), леко натоварен. (various references)

Chinese		光递. (various references)

Hungarian		könnyûkezû (light fingered). (various references)

Korean		불빛 수교하는. (various references)

Pig Latin		ight-handedlay

Portuguese		ligeiro (fleet, hasty, light, lightly, nimble, quick, ready, speedy), hábil (able, adroit, artful, canny, capable, cattish, circumspective, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, habile, ingenious, knacky, neat, neat-handed, practitioner, skilful, skilled, skillful), despachado (adroit, expeditious, Java, speedy). (various references)

Romanian		fãrã bagaj, cu mânã uşoarã, îndemânatic (adroit, adroitly, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, handy, natty, skilful, skillful, slick, subtle, tricky, workmanlike). (various references)

Russian		с пустыми руками (empty handed), ловкий (adept, adroit, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodgy, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tactical, tricky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lake ruke, s malom posadom. (various references)

Spanish		ligero (agile, airy, double quick, facile, faint, fast, feathery, flippant, gentle, hasty, light, lightly, lightweight, lithe, mild, quick, quickly, quiet, rakish, remote, springy, swift, thin, twinkling), hábil (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, handy, masterly, neat, neat-handed, nifty, practised, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick). (various references)

Turkish		eli hafif, eli boş (empty handed), becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise). (various references)

Ukranian		спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), тактовний (considerate, nice, tactful), з пустими руками (empty handed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "light-handed" (pronounced 'Light"-hand`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-h-h-i-l-n-t"
	-2 letters: deadlight, headlight.
	-3 letters: alighted, atheling, delating, gilthead, handheld, highland, tideland.
	-4 letters: addling, aligned, atingle, dangled, dealing, delight, dighted, dilated, elating, gahnite, gelatin, genital, gladden, glinted, halting, handled, heading, healing, heating, highted, inhaled, lathing, leading, ligated, lighted, lighten, tangled, tedding, thighed, tingled.
	-5 letters: adding, aiglet, alight, alined, angled, daledh, daleth, dandle, danged, dangle, dating, denial.
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