closehanded

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Covetous; penurious; stingy
    — Once he got to Main Street, the street lamps puddled pale gold circles directly beneath their poles, closehanded as a string of misers, but Mason avoided even the edges of their light.
  2. Secretive.
    — Ye need not be so closehanded of anything I send you: ye may communicate them to whom ye will, for I am little concerned if they be published under others' name or not.
  3. Involving close proximity. obsolete
    — ...a closehanded battle, or tumult, in which the ditferent parties are confusedly mired together, and fight, as we say, pellmell.
副词 adv.
  1. Closely, directly.
    — As a reporter, I became aware of the problems whistleblowers face closehanded back when I was covering government and local government in Des Moines, Iowa.

词形变化

more closehanded comparative most closehanded superlative close-handed alternative more closehanded comparative most closehanded superlative close-handed alternative

词源

词源 1
From close + handed.
词源 2
From close + handed.
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