handwrite

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ˈhændˌraɪt/ UK /ˈhændˌraɪt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

verb
to write by hand rather than by machine

She still prefers to handwrite her letters to old friends.

Verb forms

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 verb · to write by hand rather... pen inscribe scribe write

Opposites

type print

Word family

Derived forms handwrittenhandwriting

Related forms hand write

Etymology

A compound of hand (Old English hand) and write (Old English wrītan, 'to scratch, draw, write'), a back-formation from handwriting and handwritten.

hand Old English wrītan Old English

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# handwrite

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /ˈhændˌraɪt/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈhændˌraɪt/

## Meanings
1. to write by hand rather than by machine

## Examples
- She still prefers to handwrite her letters to old friends.

## Synonyms
- pen
- inscribe
- scribe
- write

## Antonyms
- type
- print

## Derived Forms
- handwritten
- handwriting

## Related Forms
- hand
- write

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hand
- Root: wrītan

## Etymology
A compound of hand (Old English hand) and write (Old English wrītan, 'to scratch, draw, write'), a back-formation from handwriting and handwritten.

## AI Etymology
handwrite is a compound of hand (Old English hand) and write (Old English wrītan, 'to scratch, draw, write'), a back-formation from handwriting and handwritten. Morphologically, the word is best read through the components named in the history, with the modern spelling preserving a compound structure rather than a single unanalyzable stem. In present English, the verb sense is "to write by hand rather than by machine", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as hand and write, and in derivatives such as handwritten and handwriting. Its semantic neighborhood includes pen, inscribe, scribe, and write, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old English hand and Old English wrītan.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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