Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fat-finger
Participle: fat-fingered
Gerund: fat-fingering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fat-finger |
| you | fat-finger |
| he;she;it | fat-fingers |
| we | fat-finger |
| you | fat-finger |
| they | fat-finger |
Perfect
| I | have fat-fingered |
| you | have fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | has fat-fingered |
| we | have fat-fingered |
| you | have fat-fingered |
| they | have fat-fingered |
Past
| I | fat-fingered |
| you | fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | fat-fingered |
| we | fat-fingered |
| you | fat-fingered |
| they | fat-fingered |
Pluperfect
| I | had fat-fingered |
| you | had fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | had fat-fingered |
| we | had fat-fingered |
| you | had fat-fingered |
| they | had fat-fingered |
Future
| I | will fat-finger |
| you | will fat-finger |
| he;she;it | will fat-finger |
| we | will fat-finger |
| you | will fat-finger |
| they | will fat-finger |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fat-fingered |
| you | will have fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | will have fat-fingered |
| we | will have fat-fingered |
| you | will have fat-fingered |
| they | will have fat-fingered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fat-finger |
| you | fat-finger |
| he;she;it | fat-finger |
| we | fat-finger |
| you | fat-finger |
| they | fat-finger |
Perfect
| I | have fat-fingered |
| you | have fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | have fat-fingered |
| we | have fat-fingered |
| you | have fat-fingered |
| they | have fat-fingered |
Imperfect
| I | fat-fingered |
| you | fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | fat-fingered |
| we | fat-fingered |
| you | fat-fingered |
| they | fat-fingered |
Pluperfect
| I | had fat-fingered |
| you | had fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | had fat-fingered |
| we | had fat-fingered |
| you | had fat-fingered |
| they | had fat-fingered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fat-finger |
| you | would fat-finger |
| he;she;it | would fat-finger |
| we | would fat-finger |
| you | would fat-finger |
| they | would fat-finger |
Perfect
| I | would have fat-fingered |
| you | would have fat-fingered |
| he;she;it | would have fat-fingered |
| we | would have fat-fingered |
| you | would have fat-fingered |
| they | would have fat-fingered |
Imperative
| you | fat-finger |
| we | Let's fat-finger |
| you | fat-finger |
Verbs conjugated like 'fat-finger'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fat-finger'
attinge,
befinger,
finger,
forslinger,
harbinger,
interfinger,
light-finger,
malinger,
out-winter,
rat-fink,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
See fat finger.
Sample Sentences
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Another Sprint employee speculated that someone might have fatfingered the keyboard. [1995 September 8, “US West software update disconnects online users”, in Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.:]
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However the other day I fatfingered a web request and got a Charter Communications not found result page [2008 August 24, “DNS: Patched but not totally fixed”, in TechRepublic:]
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“Evidently, someone said they ‘fat-fingered’ a trade, meaning they accidentally put it in for billions instead of millions,” Snyder said. [2010 May 6, Jennie Runevitch, “Source of Stocks’ Plunge Investigated”, in WTHR, Indianapolis, Ind.:]
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In general, mobile form designs are "chunkier," using larger input boxes to make it easier to tap in the intended field, even if the user "fat-fingers" it. So make sure to add some extra padding to all your input fields, and also increase the font size a bit so it's not only more legible but also larger on the touchscreen. [2015, Jon J. Raasch, Graham Murray, Vadim Ogievetsky, Joseph Lowery, “Acquiring Data Interactively”, in JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wrox Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (Working with JavaScript for Analysis), page 77:]
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Slowing down the number of login attempts before an IP address is blocked reduces the attractiveness of your site to an automatic attack script. Note that generally these offer temporary IP address blocking, so that valid users who accidentally fat finger their password have an opportunity to log in after the ban has expired. [2015, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, “Securing WordPress”, in Professional WordPress: Design and Development, 3rd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wrox Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 371:]