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handpicked

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • /ˌhændˈpɪkt/
    • /ˌhændˈpɪkt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˌhændˈpɪkt/

Definitions of handpicked word

  • noun handpicked Picked by hand; picked or selected with care. 1
  • verb handpicked Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual. 0

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Parts of speech for Handpicked

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

handpicked popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

handpicked usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for handpicked

adjective handpicked

  • select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • exclusive — An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.
  • finestfines. Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e). Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
  • crack — If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
  • elite — A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category, esp. because of their power, talent, or wealth.

verb handpicked

  • choose — If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
  • 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.
  • prefer — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
  • 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.

Antonyms for handpicked

adjective handpicked

  • run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
  • inferior — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
  • low-class — vulgar, coarse, or undignified
  • lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.

verb handpicked

  • ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • 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.
  • refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.

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