English Dictionary

light-handed

adj

Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention. / Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts. / Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous / Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.

She has a light-handed touch when playing the piano.

意味（1）

Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention.

At the other extreme, the view has been that light-handed 'regulation' is a euphemism for 'handsoff'.

意味（2）

Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts.

Did you know that the light-handed, 'less is more' approach works best even for heavy acne and deep wrinkles?

意味（3）

Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous

The children are so quick and light-handed, the victim doesn't feel a thing.

意味（4）

Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.

He seemed likeable, a scrupulous, slow young man, without the disengagedness of Considine, that light-hearted, light-handed seducer who (Edward had come to believe) even shot lions negligently.

意味（5）

flippant; lacking seriousness.

Philip Penna, of Indiana, a veteran of many labor controversies, roundly scored the United Mine Workers for their light-handed treatment of their contracts.

意味（6）

(nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.

I looked at the round bows of the sloop, and then at the old sails and the light-handed crew.

意味（7）

Thieving, larcenous.

Captive rowlocks keep the oars in the boat while you 're rowing and discourage lighthanded hardware seekers when you go ashore.

意味（8）

(food) Fresh and light-tasting, not rich, heavy, or highly seasoned.

Fruit jellies offer an excellent, light-handed way of making vibrantly fresh desserts to round off a rich meal.

意味（9）

(obsolete) Having or requiring little strength.

...are such as the cotton, woolen, and shoe factories, wherein the use of machinery has made mere human tenders of the operatives employed; or in such industries as the making of garments, wherein light-handed and comparatively unskilled labor, such as that of women and children, embodies the very worst features of an utterly selfish competition, and leaves the worker almost entirely at the mercy of sweaters and middle-men.