butterfingered

Speech parts

1. butterfingered - Adjective

2. butterfingered - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

left-handed handless bumbling bungling ham-fisted ham-handed ungainly stiff awkward uneasy incompetent clumsy inept shuffling inelegant
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Antonyms

long-term grand ace handy comely effective
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Phrases with the word

butterfingered goal keeper butterfingered person

Examples

a bumbling mechanic Source: Internet

a bungling performance Source: Internet

ham-handed governmental interference Source: Internet

could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

butterfatty Butterfield butterfinger butterfingered goal keeper butterfingered person butterfingers