hand-operated

Definitions

Operated by a person's hands rather than by an automatic or motorized mechanism.

Requiring manual effort or physical manipulation to function.

Examples

The vintage coffee grinder is hand-operated, requiring a steady rhythm to produce the perfect grind.

For safety reasons, the emergency gate is hand-operated in the event of a power failure.

Synonyms

manual hand-cranked manually operated non-automatic hand-driven hand-powered human-powered

Antonyms

automatic automated motorized electric power-driven mechanical self-acting