ADJECTIVE | all | handless | without a hand or hands |
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all | handless, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands |
Meaning | Without a hand or hands. | |
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Example | "a handless war veteran" | |
Opposite | handed | Having or involving the use of hands |
Spanish | manco |
Meaning | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands. | |
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Example | "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse | |
Synonyms | bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, left-handed | |
Broader | maladroit | not adroit |
Spanish | manazas, torpe | |
Catalan | graponer, maldestre, matusser |
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