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Common misspellings for handful

halpful, handul, honorful, wunderful, wonderfful, wonderfuil, halpfull, wanderfull, wonderfula, whnderful, hatful, handhelp, hanfull, indivula, vonderful, hanfle, wonuderful, wondefful, onderful, wondferful, wonderfule, wornderful, wonderfiul, hunstville, handoffs, wondeful, hankful, handsfree, handal, kindful, wonderfukl, wounderful, waonderful, handl, handleful, honululu, handfs, heartful, wnderful, wanderful, wondderful, woundful, ownderful, handfull, wonoderful, handoff, handuffs, wondaful, handfully, hartful, eonderful, induvual, woonderful, mindfulof, wwonderful, hdnful, handfulls, wonnderful, hadnfull, wondwerful, mindfl, landfil, founderful, wonmderful, hadful, wdonderful, wopnderful, handhel, huntsvilel, woanderful, healtful, paintful, woundeful, vonderfull, woanderfull, w'onderful, hatfull, sonderful, handsfull, hanful, wo9nderful, handdel, hadfurth, worndeful, handfule, handvoll, handford, huntville, indiuval, fonderful, wandeful, wonderfurl.

Definitions of handful

As much as the closed hand will contain.
a small number or amount; " only a handful of responses were received"
As much as a hand can hold; all that can be managed.
A small quantity.
As much as the hand will grasp or contain; a small quantity.
the quantity that can be held in the hand
As much as a hand can hold.
As much as fills the hand; small quantity.
A hand's breadth; four inches.
As much as fills the hand: a small number or quantity:- pl. HANDFULS.
As much as the hand will grasp or contain.

Antonyms for handful

crowd, profusion, raft, Jillion, most, shipload, wealth, plenty, sight, preponderance, lashings, multiplicity, barrel, sheaf, flock, stack, majority, deal, REAMS, bulk, slew, plentitude, chunk, many, host, truckload, quantity, scads, plateful, plenitude, potful, army, pack, load, bushel, loads, multitude, much, hundred, lot, bucket, carload, generality, mass, spate, slather, dozen, basketful, bundle, mess, surplus, peck, oodles, horde, mountain, boatload, passel, gazillion, legion, good deal, wad, abundance, pile, volume, thousands, gobs, bunch, fistful, excess, lion's share, heap, zillion.

Quotes of handful

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. – Leo Burnett
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. – Geezer Butler
Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. – Maurice Greene
I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it. – Lee Krasner
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. – Robert McChesney
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. – Mignon McLaughlin
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. – Bobby Scott
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. – Mike Tyson
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins. – Karrie Webb
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted. – Eberhard Weber
Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could. – Timothy West
I was a handful growing up. – Olivia Wilde

Usage examples for handful

“ Our mode of travelling afforded us an opportunity of calling at Phalsbourg, where we found a handful of Protestants, about twenty- six families, mostly German settlers. ” – Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley
“ And now, daughter of earth," and, as she spoke, she stooped, and pulled up a whole handful of violets, dripping with summer rain,- and repeating the words, " Daughter of earth, away! ” – Stories of Childhood by Various
“ A handful of cash for my labour! ” – Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
“ Again I felt the touch of stones, and again seizing a handful I went back into the light. ” – A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Boothby
“ With a heavy heart he led back his little handful of tired and wounded soldiers to the camp. ” – Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light by Vera C. Barclay
“ " And there's another out there," and he pointed again with the handful of shakins. ” – The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson
“ What, do you honestly think you can frighten a grown woman into believing that a handful of silly letters could possibly be worth all that? ” – Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
“ " Mayn't be any trains out of Hull during the night, sir," answered Gaffney, taking a handful of sandwiches. ” – The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation by J. S. Fletcher
“ Jake, you might pound this handful of stuff as fine as you can. ” – For the Allinson Honor by Harold Bindloss
“ He puts a handful of seed on the top end of the board and gently shakes it. ” – The Cauliflower by A. A. Crozier
“ My instinct would have been to take a handful of men and dash to her rescue- which of course would have been absurd. ” – Tarrano the Conqueror by Raymond King Cummings
“ Not a blessed handful ” – Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
“ " See how quick they'll change their minds," he said, as he threw down a handful of corn. ” – A Day Of Fate by E. P. Roe
“ As he listened, he noticed a handful of people, listening also, under the barred window. ” – A Book of Quaker Saints by Lucy Violet Hodgkin
“ He extended it, adding, " I thought I'd run in and bring you a handful of cigars. ” – The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory
“ There were only a handful of men in this whole House of Commons besides us who were in favour of any measure of Home Rule for Ireland. ” – John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Gwynn
“ Madame's troopers had crossed the frontier, but they had returned again, taking with them the handful of troopers belonging to the king. ” – The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
“ On my departure they gave me a handful of money- the most that I had ever possessed in my life together. ” – Poems Chiefly From Manuscript by John Clare
“ The former approached the table and turned over the handful of letters. ” – Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss
“ But at length the storm passed over and over his spent members; sand gathered by the handful in the folds of his clothes; the end was as near as end could be. ” – Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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