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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OPEN-HANDED

OPEN-HANDED O "pen-hand `ed, a.

 

Defn: Generous; liberal; munificent. -- O "pen-hand `ed *ness, n. J. S. Mill.

 

Oxford Dictionary

open-handed

open-handed adjective 1 (of a blow ) delivered with the palm of the hand. 2 giving freely; generous: open-handed philanthropy. DERIVATIVES open-handedly adverb, open-handedness noun

 

Oxford Thesaurus

open-handed

open-handed adjective a combination of hard-headed business sense and open-handed philanthropy: generous, magnanimous, charitable, benevolent, beneficent, big-hearted, great-hearted, munificent, bountiful, liberal, handsome, princely; altruistic, kind, kindly, philanthropic, chivalrous, noble, unselfish, selfless, self-sacrificing, generous to a fault, ungrudging, unstinting; literary bounteous. ANTONYMS tight-fisted.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

open-handed

pen-h nd ed /-ɪd /形容詞 1 手のひらを開いた .2 気前のいい, 物惜しみしない .ly 副詞 気前よく .ness 名詞