Antonyms of adj sure-handed

1 sense of sure-handed

Sense 1
sure-handed -- (proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts")

INDIRECT (VIA skilled) -> unskilled -- (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship")

Similarity of adj sure-handed

1 sense of sure-handed

Sense 1
sure-handed -- (proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts")
       => skilled (vs. unskilled) -- (having or showing or requiring special skill; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade")

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