at one's fingertips
Within immediate reach
Readily available or easily accessible.
Information at your fingertips can be retrieved instantly: With a smartphone, you have the world's knowledge at your fingertips.
A skill at your fingertips is one you've mastered so thoroughly it requires no effort: She has three languages at her fingertips.
- reference materialsTexts consulted for information
- databasesOrganized electronic information collections
- quick accessImmediate availability to something
- masteryComplete skill or control
- pressApply force downward
familiarity · search engines · fluency · expertise · touch · toolkits · at hand · close at hand · competence · proximity · convenience · libraries · know-how · usability · reach · manuals · proficiency · immediacy
at one's fingertipsout of reach
Beyond one's grasp
inaccessible · unavailable · unobtainable · buried · hidden
at one's fingertipsforgotten
No longer recalled
rusty · unprepared · unready · out of practice · beyond recall
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