What does adroit mean?
Adroit means deft, dexterous, or skillful.
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/əˈdɹɔɪt/ · adjective
deft, dexterous, or skillful.
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.
[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: […]
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.
[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.
[A] person is called right-handed because his right hand is more adroit than his left; confronted by any task requiring precision of control, wielding a tennis racket or a pencil, the right-handed person uses his right hand. Similarly, as among lip, apex of the tongue and dorsum, it is apparent that the apex is the most adroit of the three. It is not surprising then that, as has often been remarked, the apical sounds are generally more frequent than the others.
Use adroit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adroit means deft, dexterous, or skillful.
Common synonyms include habile, skillful, cunning, artful.
Possible antonyms include clumsy, maladroit.
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.
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