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- [hand pikt]
- /hænd pɪkt/
- /hænd pɪk/
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- [hand pikt]
- /hænd pɪkt/
Definitions of hand-picked word
- verb with object hand-picked to pick by hand. 1
- verb with object hand-picked to select personally and with care: The boss handpicked his assistants. 1
- adjective hand-picked selected with great care, as for a special job or purpose; chosen 0
- adjective hand-picked (of fruit, etc) picked by hand rather than by machinery. 0
- adjective hand-picked (by extension, of people) specially selected because of their individual characteristics or talents. 0
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Origin of hand-picked
First appearance:
before 1825 One of the 37% newest English words
First recorded in 1825-35; hand + pick1
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Parts of speech for Hand-picked
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hand-picked popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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Synonyms for hand-picked
adj hand-picked
- prime — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- preferred — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- prize — leverage.
- fine — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- winner — a person or thing that wins; victor.
verb hand-picked
- prefer — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- name — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- cull — If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
- slot — a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
Antonyms for hand-picked
adj hand-picked
- worst — in ill health; sick: He felt badly.
- unimportant — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- bad — If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
- poor — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- unrefined — not refined; not purified, as substances: unrefined metal.
verb hand-picked
- reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
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Matching words
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