All close-at-hand antonyms
close-at-hand
C c adj close-at-hand
- unavailable — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- faraway — distant; remote: faraway lands.
- inconvenient — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- useless — of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
- unhandy — not skillful in manual work: He's unhandy when it comes to fixing things around the house.
- inconveniently — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- far — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- deferred — withheld over a certain period; postponed
- postponed — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- gone — past participle of go1 .
- away — If someone or something moves or is moved away from a place, they move or are moved so that they are no longer there. If you are away from a place, you are not in the place where people expect you to be.
- distant — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- detached — Someone who is detached is not personally involved in something or has no emotional interest in it.
- separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
- remote — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- past — gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now.
- unfamiliar — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.