handwritten

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Handwritten means put on paper with a pen rather than a keyboard. Somebody's actual hand made these marks.

That is the whole value of it now, since a handwritten note carries effort in a way a typed one cannot, which is why condolence letters and thank-you cards are still written by hand. Schools argue about how much handwriting to teach as keyboards take over. There is a legal sense too, since a handwritten will can be valid, and handwriting analysis is used in disputed documents.

Definitions of handwritten

1adjectivehandwrittenWritten by hand rather than typed or printed.C1
“There was a handwritten note tucked inside the book.”

Where it comes from

From hand + written.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

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handwritten in the wild

Signatures are often, but not always, handwritten or stylized.
Signature
Historically, Solitreo served as the standard handwritten form of Judeo-Spanish in the Balkans and Turkey, that complemented the Rashi script character set used for printing.
Solitreo
Modern Hebrew, especially in informal use in Israel, is handwritten with the Ashkenazi cursive script that had developed in Central Europe by the 13th century.
Cursive Hebrew
Most handwritten Russian, especially in personal letters and schoolwork, uses the cursive alphabet.
Russian cursive
Cursive hieroglyphs, or hieroglyphic book hand, are a form of Egyptian hieroglyphs commonly used for handwritten religious documents, such as the Book of the Dead.
Cursive hieroglyphs

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