handful
noun
1 handful
A small number or amount:
— Only a handful of responses were received.
synonym: smattering.
Roget 25:
quantity,
magnitude;
size
etc.
(dimensions)
192;
amplitude,
magnitude,
mass,
amount,
sum,
quantum,
measure,
substance,
strength,
force.
[Science of quantity.]
mathematics,
mathesis†.
[Logic.]
category,
general conception,
universal predicament.
[Definite or finite quantity.]
armful,
handful,
mouthful,
spoonful,
capful;
stock,
batch,
lot,
dose;
yaffle†.
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Roget 32:
smallness
etc.
adj.;
littleness
etc.
(small size)
193;
tenuity;
paucity;
fewness
etc.
(small number)
103;
meanness,
insignificance
(unimportance)
643;
mediocrity,
moderation.
small quantity,
modicum,
trace,
hint,
minimum;
vanishing point;
material point,
atom,
particle,
molecule,
corpuscle,
point,
speck,
dot,
mote,
jot,
iota,
ace;
minutiae,
details;
look,
thought,
idea,
soupcon,
dab,
dight†,
whit,
tittle,
shade,
shadow;
spark,
scintilla,
gleam;
touch,
cast;
grain,
scruple,
granule,
globule,
minim,
sup,
sip,
sop,
spice,
drop,
droplet,
sprinkling,
dash,
morceau†,
screed,
smack,
tinge,
tincture;
inch,
patch,
scantling,
tatter,
cantlet†,
flitter,
gobbet†,
mite,
bit,
morsel,
crumb,
seed,
fritter,
shive†;
snip,
snippet;
snick†,
snack,
snatch,
slip,
scrag†;
chip,
chipping;
shiver,
sliver,
driblet,
clipping,
paring,
shaving,
hair.
nutshell;
thimbleful,
spoonful,
handful,
capful,
mouthful;
fragment;
fraction
etc.
(part)
51;
drop in the ocean.
animalcule
etc.
193.
trifle
etc.
(unimportant thing)
643;
mere nothing,
next to nothing;
hardly anything;
just enough to swear by;
the shadow of a shade.
finiteness,
finite quantity.
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Roget 103:
fewness
etc.
adj.;
paucity,
small number;
small quantity
etc.
32;
rarity;
infrequency
etc.
137;
handful,
maniple;
minority;
exiguity.
[Diminution of number]
reduction;
weeding
etc.
v.;
elimination,
sarculation†,
decimation;
eradication.
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Dutch: handjevol, handvol
Polish: garstka, garść
2 handful
The quantity that can be held in the hand.
synonym: fistful.
Dutch: greep, handbreed, handbreedte, handvol
Polish: garsteczka
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