Antonyms for tinker
ˈtɪŋ kərtin·ker

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1. tinkernoun

   to work as a tinker

   Synonyms:
   traveller

2. tinkernoun

   A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.

   Synonyms:
   scamp, rascal, scoundrel, rapscallion, rogue

Matched Categories

1. • Experimenter
   • Itinerant
   • Repair
   • Work

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. tinker, tinkerernoun

   a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts

   Synonyms:
   chub mackerel, tinkerer, fiddler

2. tinkernoun

   formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living

   Synonyms:
   chub mackerel, tinkerer

3. chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicusverb

   small mackerel found nearly worldwide

   Synonyms:
   chub mackerel, tinkerer

4. putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck aroundverb

   do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

   "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

   Synonyms:
   fiddle, muck around, monkey, muck about, monkey around, tamper, putter, potter around, mess around, putter around, potter

5. tinkerverb

   work as a tinker or tinkerer

   Synonyms:
   fiddle, muck around, monkey, muck about, monkey around, putter, mess around, potter

6. tinker, fiddleverb

   try to fix or mend

   "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"

   Synonyms:
   play, fiddle, shirk, muck around, goldbrick, monkey, shrink from, muck about, monkey around, putter, toy, mess around, diddle, potter, tamper

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. leave alone

   Submitted by anonymous on July 5, 2020  

How to use tinker in a sentence?

1. Billy Roberts:

   It depends on the individual, if it turns into a distraction more than mindfulness, accountability or behavioral support, then you just want to rework things. You can kind of tinker with things until you find what works.

2. Henry Ford:

   History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

3. Daniel Markuson:

   And it will not protect you from being monitored by your ISP, marketers, and even the government if they decide to spy on you, we believe that the question should be...about Google’s ability and willingness to provide people with tools to actually rule over their privacy. With Google all around us, it is next to impossible for anyone to figure out which Chrome browser, Google account or Android phone privacy settings one needs to tinker [with] to achieve [that] goal.

4. James Scott:

   We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.

5. Steven Rosenthal:

   At the end of the day, I think they'd step back from the precipice and just tinker around with the current system, but you never know. We are living in strange times.

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