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fat-fingered

fat-fingered adjective: careless or clumsy in typing. Also the simple past and past participle of fat-finger.

Adjective

fat-fingered (comparative more fat-fingered, superlative most fat-fingered)

  1. (humorous, informal) Careless or clumsy in typing.

Also used as

fat-fingered is also the simple past and past participle of fat-finger.

Forms of fat-fingered

Adjective
comparativemore fat-fingered
superlativemost fat-fingered
Verb
alternative formfatfingered
alternative formfat fingered

Questions about fat-fingered

What does fat-fingered mean?
Fat-fingered means careless or clumsy in typing.
What part of speech is fat-fingered?
Fat-fingered is an adjective.

Words near fat-fingered in the dictionary

  1. fat-buttocked
  2. fat-cat
  3. fat-cats
  4. fat-chewing
  5. fat-finger
  6. fat-fingered
  7. fat-fingering
  8. fat-fingers
  9. fat-free
  10. fat-gutted
  11. fat-kidneyed

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