Word Meanings - ADROIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an

Additional info about word: ADROIT

Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay. Syn. -- Dexterous; skillful; expert; ready; clever; deft; ingenious; cunning; ready-witted.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADROIT)

• Adept
• Expert
• adroit
• handy
• master
• performer
• professor
• artist
• Clever
• Able
• ready
• talented
• quick
• ingenious
• dexterous
• expert
• gifted
• quick-witted
• skillful
• well-contrived
• Quick
• Fast
• rapid
• speedy
• expeditious
• swift
• hasty
• prompt
• clever
• sharp
• shrewd
• keen
• fleet
• active
• brisk
• nimble
• lively
• agile
• alert
• sprightly
• transient
• intelligent
• irascible

Related words: (words related to ADROIT)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• INGENIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• ARTISTE
  One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook. Note: This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• GIFTEDNESS
  The state of being gifted. Echard.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.