handwaver.
Someone who engages in handwaving.
Meaning & usage
Someone who engages in handwaving. One who speaks or writes sweepingly, glossing over details, often including important details.
Take his predictions about our technological and business-development timelines with a grain of salt, because he's an inveterate handwaver.
Someone who engages in handwaving. One who raises their hand a lot.
A gifted pupil might sometimes need to be coached privately about avoiding presenting themself as a handwaver.
Where this word comes from
By surface analysis, handwave + -er, or, by surface analysis, hand + waver.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.