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Synonyms for heavy-handed in English

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heavy-handed:
- rough; heavy-handed
- bungling; left-handed; heavy-handed; handless; ham-fisted; bumbling; ham-handed; butterfingered; roughshod

English

Detailed Synonyms for heavy-handed in English

heavy-handed:

heavy-handed

heavy-handed
rough; heavy-handed
- rough
- heavy-handed

heavy-handed adj

heavy-handed

– lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands ¹
bungling; left-handed; heavy-handed; handless; ham-fisted; bumbling; ham-handed; butterfingered
– lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands ¹
- bungling adj
  - a bungling performance¹
- left-handed adj
- heavy-handed adj
- handless adj
  - could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature¹
- ham-fisted adj
- bumbling adj
  - a bumbling mechanic¹
- ham-handed adj
  - ham-handed governmental interference¹
- butterfingered adj
heavy-handed

– unjustly domineering ¹
heavy-handed; roughshod
– unjustly domineering ¹
- heavy-handed adj
  - incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies¹
- roughshod adj
  - a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition¹

Alternate Synonyms for "heavy-handed":

bumbling; bungling; butterfingered; ham-fisted; ham-handed; handless; left-handed; maladroit
roughshod; domineering

Related Definitions for "heavy-handed":

lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands¹
unjustly domineering¹
- incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies¹

Related Synonyms for heavy-handed

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University