🛠️

workmanlike

adjective

/ˈwɜːkmənˌlaɪk/

Meaning

Showing efficient, competent, and practical skill, but without flair or creativity.

The carpenter delivered a workmanlike performance on the project.

competent, efficient, skilled, practical, capable

unskilled, incompetent, sloppy

workmanlike manner, workmanlike performance, workmanlike approach

poorly thought out or badly planned

Having a limited outlook or unwillingness to accept different opinions or ideas.

Skills in business management and creating new opportunities

suitable or convenient for achieving a particular end, sometimes at the expense of morality

feeling anxious or fearful that something bad will happen

relating to or occurring in a particular season; changing according to the seasons