overhanded

1. 1.

   with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level

   “an overhand pitch”

   “an overhand stroke”

   Synonymsoverhandoverarm

   Similarround-arm

   sport

Questions about overhanded

What does overhanded mean?

overhanded means "with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level".

How many syllables are in overhanded?

overhanded has 4 syllables: o-ver-han-ded. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for overhanded?

Close synonyms include overhand, overarm. 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 overhanded a common word?

overhanded 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.