handwrite

To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed.

Verb

  1. To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed.
    • “Whoever you get, whether it’s the neighbor down the street or somebody you don’t know, type or even handwrite exactly what the duties and responsibilities are and have both parties sign it,” Mr. Dunn said. - 2007...
    • The 800-word work (on a paper slightly bigger than a postcard) is one of 13 works submitted by a group of authors that includes Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby, The Associated Press...

Origin

From hand + write.

Forms

handwrites handwriting handwrote handwritten

Synonyms

handwrite set down write

Hypernyms

communicate

Hyponyms

jot dash off scrawl scribble scribe

Related

write scribe