hand-held

1. 1.

   small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands

   “a hand-held computer”

   Synonymshandheld

Questions about hand-held

What does hand-held mean?

hand-held means "small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands".

How many syllables are in hand-held?

hand-held has 2 syllables: hand--held. The stress falls on "hand-". In IPA it is /ˈhændˌhɛld/.

What is another word for hand-held?

Close synonyms include handheld. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand-held a common word?

hand-held is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.