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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
handless is an adjective meaning "without a hand or hands". It carries 2 recorded senses.
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
“a bumbling mechanic”
“a bungling performance”
“ham-handed governmental interference”
“could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for handless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.