longhand

1. 1.

   having words written out in full by hand

   “longhand writing”

   Similarwritten

Other forms of longhand

plural

longhands·

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.

Questions about longhand

What does longhand mean?

longhand means "rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in longhand?

longhand has 2 syllables: long-hand. The stress falls on "long". In IPA it is /ˈlɔŋˌhænd/.

What is another word for longhand?

Close synonyms include running hand, cursive, cursive script. 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 longhand a common word?

longhand 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.

What rhymes with longhand?

13 words rhyme with longhand. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.