one-handed

1. 1.

   having or using a single hand

   “one-handed golfers”

   “a one-handed backetball shot”

   Similarhanded

Questions about one-handed

What does one-handed mean?

one-handed means "having or using a single hand".

How many syllables are in one-handed?

one-handed has 4 syllables and divides as o-ne--han-ded under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is one-handed a common word?

one-handed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.