hands down

Speech parts

1. hands down - Verb

2. hands down - Adverb

3. hands down - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

with no difficulty

achieved without great effort

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

hands-down

Synonyms

easily readily smoothly comfortably fluently dexterously going away swimmingly handily like clockwork

Antonyms

roughly brutally sternly stiffly brain surgery arduously
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Examples

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. Drew Barrymore

Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art. Ashley Madekwe

Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that. David Zucker

I want to write poetry, I'm bored, disgusted by my habits If I stop thinking and put my hands down perhaps I will have much to say I'm scurrying to the attic like a solitary bug Before you become old and ugly, I must kiss you on the nose. Ataol Behramoğlu

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down. Julie Burchill

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. Kurt Cobain

Close letter words and terms

hands are tied hands clasped hands crossed hands interlocked hands joined hands off