fat-fingered
Prone to mistypes
Fat-fingered describes clumsy typing that hits wrong keys, usually because fingers are too large for small buttons or keyboards.
The term appears most often in contexts where a typo causes serious consequences: A fat-fingered trade crashed the market when someone typed billions instead of millions.
To fat-finger is to make such an error: I fat-fingered my password three times and got locked out.
Lacking dexterity or subtlety
- butterfingersClumsy dropper of things
- klutzyLacking physical coordination
- uncoordinatedLacking physical grace
- awkwardLacking grace or ease
bungling · maladroit · oafish · heavy-handed · bumbling · ungainly · all-thumbs · ham-fisted
Printing mistake
- keyboardArray of input keys
- autocorrectAutomatic spelling correction
- backspaceKeyboard's leftward eraser
- touchscreenInput-sensitive display panel
smartphone · texting · misspell · delete · correction · typographical · misprint · retyping
ham-handed
Lacking dexterity or subtlety
- butterfingersClumsy dropper of things
- klutzyLacking physical coordination
- uncoordinatedLacking physical grace
awkward · bungling · maladroit · oafish · heavy-handed · bumbling · ungainly · all-thumbs · ham-fisted · blundering
typo
Printing mistake
- keyboardArray of input keys
- autocorrectAutomatic spelling correction
- backspaceKeyboard's leftward eraser
touchscreen · smartphone · texting · misspell · delete · correction · typographical · misprint · retyping · error
fat-fingerednimble-fingered
Manually agile and precise
deft · dexterous · sure-handed · nimble · light-fingered
fat-fingeredaccurate
Conforming to fact
precise · error-free · meticulous · careful · touch-typist
finger, fats, fatness, fatten, fattened, fattening, fingers, fingered, fingering