Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or concerned with machinery or tools: Describes a person who has practical skill and proficiency in operating, maintaining, or designing mechanical devices, machinery, or tools. It implies a hands-on, technical aptitude.

Usage

• This adjective is used to describe a person's practical ability with machines or tools. It is often used in contexts related to trades, engineering, repair, and hands-on technical work.
• It typically modifies nouns like , , , , or .

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The job requires a mechanically skillful technician who can troubleshoot complex engines.
  • His mechanically skillful hands could fix almost any broken appliance.
  • She is not only a great theorist but also mechanically skillful in the workshop.

Advanced Usage

• "to be mechanically skillful": to possess a natural or learned talent for working with machines.
  • To succeed as an auto mechanic, you must be mechanically skillful and detail-oriented.

Variants and Related Words

• Mechanical (adj): Operated by or relating to machinery or mechanics.
  • The failure was due to a mechanical problem, not human error.
• Skillful (adj): Having or showing skill.
  • He is a skillful negotiator.
• Mechanically inclined (adj. phrase): Having a natural interest or talent in understanding and working with machines. (This is a common near-synonymous phrase).
  • From a young age, he was very mechanically inclined.

Synonyms

• Handy: Skilled with the hands, especially in repairing things.
• Deft: Neatly skillful and quick in one's movements, often with the hands.
• Practically minded: Having a mind oriented toward practical action and results.

Antonyms

• All thumbs: Clumsy or awkward with one's hands.
• Unmechanical: Lacking mechanical skill or understanding.

Adjective

1. relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
   • mechanical arts
   • mechanical design
   • mechanical skills