Indextrous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Indextrous is an adjective meaning Not dextrous; maladroit.
Meaning
Not dextrous; maladroit.
More Meanings
- Not manual.
Example Sentences
In their handshake we feel no understanding; we feel an indextrous hand that is not held to the equipment of our culture.
Charlie's inveterate clumsiness extends to indextrous misapplications of perfume, especially new ones whose atomizers she hasn't mastered.
He may think Memaw's consistent failure to strike him with the broom is a function of her indextrous skill with the broom used in this uncustomary manner.
No one better than he knew that an indextrous education is but half an education ; unless the hand have its delight as well as the brain, man expresses himself only in part.
Word Forms
- indexterous
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include indexterous, undexterous, nondexterous, undextrous, unhandy, indiscrete.
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