Dexterous
['dekst(ə)rəs] or ['dɛkstrəs]
Definition
(a.) Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.
(a.) Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.
(a.) Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
Checker: Monroe
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Skilful, adroit, expert, handy, apt, ready, quick, clever, able.
Typed by Ada
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AWKWARD]
Typist: Xavier
Examples
- I am dexterous in nothing, my dear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her baby. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In the evening she went to the piano, choosing new music of the dexterous, tuneless, florid kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For certain, however, Mrs John Rokesmith stitched at them with so dexterous a hand, that she must have taken lessons of somebody. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Caroline, more timid and less dexterous, fell once or twice, and bruised herself; but she rose again directly, saying she was not hurt. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But very dexterous at producing explosions, the gypsy said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was clever and dexterous and inspired by a passion for pluck, hardihood, and rather showy glory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Xavier