What is another word for handfuls?

Pronunciation: [hˈandfə͡lz] (IPA)

The term 'handfuls' is often used to describe a small quantity of something that can be held in one's hand. However, there are a number of synonyms that can be used to describe this same quantity, depending on the context. For example, 'a few' or 'a couple' may be used to indicate a small number of objects or items. 'Scant' or 'sparse' may be used to imply that the quantity is less than expected or desired. 'Limited' or 'restricted' may suggest that there is a constrained amount available. 'Handfuls' itself can also be substituted with 'a smattering' or 'a scattering' to indicate a similar small amount.

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What are the opposite words for handfuls?

Antonyms for the word "handfuls" include words such as "scarcity," "paucity," "few," and "limited." These words denote a lack or insufficiency of something, as opposed to the abundance or excess implied by "handfuls." Other antonyms for "handfuls" may include "small amounts," "insignificant quantities," or "meager portions." These words emphasize the idea of something being insufficient, inadequate, or inadequate in quantity or quality. Overall, antonyms for "handfuls" evoke the opposite meanings of excess, abundance, and plenty, highlighting the idea of scarcity or lack.

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Usage examples for Handfuls

One of his favorite ways of showing his strength was to get four men to grasp handfuls of his locks, each with one hand, as firmly as they could.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
His pamphlets were widely distributed, but he might as soon have tried to check a tempest by throwing handfuls of leaves into it.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Denham looked after them, and made as if he were tearing handfuls of grass up by the roots from the carpet.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf

Famous quotes with Handfuls

  • Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
    Katherine Anne Porter
  • I disagree with Les. We always found good cunt at the Lyceum. Friendly cunt, clean cunt, spare cunt, jeans and knicker stuffed full of nice juicy hairy cunt, handfuls of cunt, palmful grabbing the cunt by the stem, or the root – infantile memories of cunt – backrow slides – slithery oily cunt, the cunt that breathes – the cunt that’s neatly wrapped in cotton, in silk, in nylon, that announces, that speaks or thrusts, that winks that’s squeezed in a triangle of furtive cloth backed by an arse that’s creamy, springy billowy cushiony tight, knicker lined, knicker skinned, circumscribed by flowers and cotton, by views, clinging knicker, juice ridden knicker, hot knicker, wet knicker, swelling vulva knicker, witty cunt, teeth smiling the eyes biting cunt, cultured cunt, culture vulture cunt, finger biting cunt, cunt that pours, cunt that spreads itself over your soft lips, that attacks, cunt that imagines – cunt you dream about, cunt you create as a Melba, a meringue with smooth sides – remembered from school boys’ smelly first cunt, first foreign cunt, amazing cunt – cunt that’s cruel. Cunt that protects itself and makes you want it even more cunt – cunt that smells of the air, of the earth, of bakeries, of old apples, of figs, of sweat of hands of sour yeast of fresh fish cunt. So – are we going Les? We might pick up a bit of crumpet.
    Steven Berkoff
  • Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist — the only thing he's good for — is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for — to give his view of life.
    Katherine Anne Porter
  • He was waiting to choke you on a marble, to smother you with a dry-cleaning bag, to sizzle you into eternity with a fast and lethal boogie of electricity- Available At Your Nearest Switch plate Or Vacant Light Socket Right Now. There was death in a quarter bag of peanuts, an aspirated piece of steak, the next pack of cigarettes. He was around all the time, he monitored all the checkpoints between the mortal and the eternal. Dirty needles, poison beetles, downed live wires, forest fires. Whirling roller skates that shot nerdy little kids into busy intersections. When you got into the bathtub to take a shower, Oz got right in there too- Shower With A Friend. When you got on an airplane, Oz took your boarding pass. He was in the water you drank, the food you ate. Who's out there? you howled in the dark when you were all frightened and all alone, and it was his answer that came back: Don't be afraid, it's just me. Hi, howaya? You got cancer of the bowel, what a bummer, so solly, Cholly! Septicemia! Leukemia! Atherosclerosis! Coronary thrombosis! Encephalitis! Osteomyelitis! Hey-ho, let's go! Junkie in a doorway with a knife. Phone call in the middle of the night. Blood cooking in battery acid on some exit ramp in North Carolina. Big handfuls of pills, munch em up. That peculiar cast of the fingernails following asphyxiation- in its final grim struggle to survive the brain takes all oxygen that is left, even that in those living cells under the nails. Hi, folks, my name's Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, but you can call me Oz if you want- hell, we're old friends by now. Just stopped by to whop you with a little congestive heart failure or a cranial blood clot or something; can't stay, got to see a woman about a breech birth, then I've got a little smoke-inhalation job to do in Omaha.
    Stephen King

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