Adroit

Quick meaning: Adroit is an adjective meaning deft, dexterous, or skillful.

Meaning

deft, dexterous, or skillful.

Example Sentences

[W]hile the press has teemed with a thousand better modes of defending Christianity, unbelievers had been asleep all the while, and dreamed of no adroiter methods of attacking it: […]

A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.

[O]ne basic economic problem defeated the ingenuity of even the adroitest Italian bankers – the balance of payments. It often happened that the exchange of commodies was so uneven that there were no funds in Bruges to settle accounts in Florence.

By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with its broad flukes or lobes.

Word Forms

• adroiter
• adroitest

Synonyms for adroit

Depending on context, synonyms include habile, skillful, cunning, artful, clever, ingenious.

Antonyms for adroit

Common opposites include clumsy, maladroit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dextrous, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious, neat.

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