hand-operated

1. 1.

   operated by hand

   Synonymsnon-automatic

   Similarmanual

Questions about hand-operated

What does hand-operated mean?

hand-operated means "operated by hand".

How many syllables are in hand-operated?

hand-operated has 5 syllables: han-d-o-pe-ra-ted. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for hand-operated?

Close synonyms include non-automatic. 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-operated a common word?

hand-operated 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.