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HANDLELESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does handleless mean?
• HANDLELESS (adjective)
The adjective HANDLELESS has 1 sense:
1. having no handle
Familiarity information: HANDLELESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no handle
Context example:
sleek cabinets with apparently handleless doors
Antonym:
handled (having a usually specified type of handle)
Context examples
My hat (which had served me for a night-cap, too) was so crushed and bent, that no old battered handleless saucepan on a dunghill need have been ashamed to vie with it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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