Handly vs Commodious - What's the difference?
handly | commodious | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
* 1921 , Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history :
* 1971 , World justice: Volume 12:
* 2009 , Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology :
Handy; manageable.
* 1859 , The Spectator: Volume 32:
Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
* 1854 , Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; suitable.
Handly is a related term of commodious.
As adjectives the difference between handly and commodious
is that handly is of or pertaining to the hand; manual while commodious is spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.handly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
- [...] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off -set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
- The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
- The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.
commodious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.