like a pistol

ADJECTIVE

capable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able accomplished adept adequate competent efficient experienced gifted good intelligent proficient qualified skillful suited talented

WEAK

adapted apt au fait clever dynamite fireball fitted green thumb has what it takes having know-how having the goods having the right stuff knowing the ropes knowing the score like a one-man band masterly old hand old-timer on the ball proper there up up to it up to snuff up to speed veteran

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clumsy green ignorant inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inefficient inept inexperienced powerless stupid unable unintelligent unqualified unskilled unsuitable untalented useless weak

WEAK

impotent unskillful

Example Sentences

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While the shocks were administered, participants were given a friend’s hand, a metal object or a prop that looked and felt like a pistol but had no firing mechanism.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

It started with a loud bang like a pistol shot.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Since then there have been some changes such as the use of yellow plastic, but they are still designed with a grip and a trigger much like a pistol.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2021

The filmmakers are reluctant to communicate the exuberance of some first-rate literary work for fear of seeming disrespectful; the result is an agonizingly slow translation of a work that should move like a pistol shot.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2019

Byrnes seemed to think it could be used like a pistol, to scare the Soviets into behaving a certain way.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

like a pistol

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