on one hand

1. 1.

   from one point of view

   “on the one hand, she is a gifted chemist”

   Synonymson the one hand

Questions about on one hand

What does on one hand mean?

on one hand means "from one point of view".

What is another word for on one hand?

Close synonyms include on the one hand. 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 on one hand a common word?

on one hand 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.