Open-handed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Open-handed \O"pen-hand`ed\, a.
     Generous; liberal; munificent. -- {O"pen-hand`ed*ness}, n.
     --J. S. Mill.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  openhanded
       adj : given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous
             goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a
             freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's
             child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the
             arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded
             grandfather" [syn: {big}, {bighearted}, {bounteous}, {bountiful},
              {freehanded}, {handsome}, {giving}, {liberal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "openhanded":
     apparent, big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, chivalrous,
     distinct, elevated, evident, exalted, free, freehanded,
     freehearted, generous, giving, gracious, great, great of heart,
     greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable,
     idealistic, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lofty,
     magnanimous, manifest, munificent, noble, noble-minded, obvious,
     open, openhearted, palpable, patent, plain, princely, profuse,
     stintless, straightforward, sublime, ungrudging, unselfish,
     unsparing, unstinted, unstinting