on the one hand

1. 1.

   from one point of view

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

   Synonymson one hand

   Antonymson the other hand

Questions about on the one hand

What does on the one hand mean?

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

What is another word for on the one hand?

Close synonyms include on 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.

What is the opposite of on the one hand?

The recorded antonyms are on the other hand.

Is on the one hand a common word?

on the 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.