Tinkering Synonyms

To move one's fingers or hands in a nervous or aimless fashion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. twiddling
  2. trifling
  3. toying
  4. puttering
  5. playing
  6. monkeying
  7. fooling
  8. fidgeting
  9. fiddling
Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. monkeying
  2. repairing
  3. puttering
  4. fiddling
  5. messing
  6. fussing
  7. botching
  8. tampering
  9. patching
  10. meddling
  11. mending
  12. fooling
  13. dabbling

Words Related to Tinkering

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. touching
  2. messing-around
  3. helping

Tinkering Sentence Examples

  • After a great deal of tinkering and trying, they did succeed in making two paddle wheels.

  • Turgot's only choice, however, was between "tinkering" at the existing system in detail and a complete revolution, and his attack on privilege, which might have been carried through by a popular minister and a strong king, was bound to form part of any effective scheme of reform.

  • That bit was about tinkering with the payment rules.

  • Outside a group of teenagers are tinkering with a car engine.

  • Tinkering around the edges simply will not realize this vision.

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