hands down

1. 1.

   with no difficulty

   “she beat him handily”

   Synonymshandily

Questions about hands down

What does hands down mean?

hands down means "with no difficulty".

What is another word for hands down?

Close synonyms include handily. 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 hands down a common word?

hands down 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.