Heavy-handed
Heavy-handed adjective - Lacking or showing a lack of nimbleness in using one's hands.
Usage example: felt heavy-handed and awkward when she held the newborn infant
Unskilled and heavy-handed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unskilled" instead an adjective phrase "Heavy-handed".
Unskilled
Unskilled adjective - Lacking or showing a lack of expert skill.
Usage example: an unskilled handling of the facial features in the portrait explains why it is attributed to “school of Velázquez” and not to the master himself
Heavy-handed and unskilled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Heavy-handed" instead an adjective "Unskilled".
Nearby Words: unskillful, unskilful, unskilfully
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- crude and heavy-handed
- crude and unskilled
- awkward and heavy-handed
- awkward and unskilled
- clumsy and heavy-handed
- clumsy and unskilled
- inexpert and heavy-handed
- inexpert and unskilled
- graceless and heavy-handed
- graceless and unskilled
- bumbling and heavy-handed
- bumbling and unskilled
- unskillful and heavy-handed
- unskillful and unskilled
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Unskilled and Heavy-handed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/heavy-handed/unskilled
Heavy-handed & Unskilled. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/heavy-handed/unskilled>.
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