butter-fingered
[ buht-er-fing-gerz ]
Synonyms for butter-fingered
- ill-equipped
- impotent
- inadequate
- incapable
- ineligible
- unable
- unprepared
- unqualified
- useless
- blundering
- bungling
- debilitated
- disqualified
- incapacitated
- unfitted
- amateur
- awkward
- bush league
- clumsy
- feeble
- heavy-handed
- incompetent
- ineffective
- inefficient
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- maladjusted
- maladroit
- no good
- not cut out for
- not equal to
- not up to
- unapt
- unhandy
- unpracticed
- unproficient
- unskilled
- unskillful
- untrained
- weak
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Antonyms for butter-fingered
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Butter-Fingered, apt to let things fall; greasy or slippery-fingered.
She had a good deal of taste, but she was butter-fingered and careless.
For thirty mortal minutes Gardiner had me snapping back the ball to that butter-fingered Bowles.
Marion, penitent, but annoyed at being called a butter-fingered Handy Andy, let the matter slide for the moment.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR BUTTER-FINGERED
- amateur
- awkward
- blundering
- bungling
- bush league
- butter-fingered
- clumsy
- debilitated
- disqualified
- feeble
- heavy-handed
- ill-equipped
- impotent
- inadequate
- incapable
- incapacitated
- incompetent
- ineffective
- inefficient
- ineligible
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- maladjusted
- maladroit
- no good
- not cut out for
- not equal to
- not up to
- unable
- unapt
- unfitted
- unhandy
- unpracticed
- unprepared
- unproficient
- unqualified
- unskilled
- unskillful
- untrained
- useless
- weak
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.