barehanded

1. 1.

   with bare hands

   “fought barehanded”

   Similarunarmed

Questions about barehanded

What does barehanded mean?

barehanded means "with bare hands".

How many syllables are in barehanded?

barehanded has 4 syllables and divides as ba-re-han-ded under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is barehanded a common word?

barehanded is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.