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adroit

/əˈdɹɔɪt/

adroit adjective: deft, dexterous, or skillful.

Adjective

adroit (comparative adroiter or more adroit, superlative adroitest or most adroit)

  1. 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.1803, William Hogarth; Thomas Cook, engraver, “Southwark Fair”, in Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored. Engraved by Thomas Cook, London: Printed...
    • [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: […]1829, Robert Taylor, “[Appendix:] False Representations”, in The Diegesis; being a Discovery of Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity. Never before or elsewhere so Fully and Faithfully...
    Synonyms:
    habile, skillful

adroit meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

adroit in Tamil

திறமையான, அறிவுக்கூர்மை பொருந்திய‌, லாவகமாக, சதுரப்பாடுடைய, முன்திறமை வாய்ந்த

adroit in Urdu

چابک دست, چالاک, چست, فہیم, ماہر

adroit in Bengali

দক্ষ ও চতুর, কাজ সম্পাদনে নিপুণ

adroit in Malayalam

adept, skilful, skilled
ചുറുചുറുക്കുള്ള, ചുറുക്കുള്ള, വിഡംഗ, സാമർത്ഥ്യമുള്ള, കാർമ, കർമ്മകുശല
More languagesFewer languages
adroit in Kannada
ಕಯ್ಗಾರ, ಹೊಲಬಿಗ, ದೈಹಿಕ ಕೌಶಲದ ಮತ್ತುಮಾನಸಿಕ ಕೌಶಲದ, ಸಮಯ ಪರಿಜ್ಞಾನದ
adroit in Punjabi
ਮਾਹਰ māhar
adroit in Nepali
कर्णधार karṇadhār

Examples of adroit in a sentence

  • [O]ne basic economic problem defeated the ingenuity of even the adroitest Italian bankers – the balance of payments.1966, Denys Hay, Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, London: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC:
  • Similarly, as among lip, apex of the tongue and dorsum, it is apparent that the apex is the most adroit of the three.2012, William Diver, “Phonology as Human Behavior”, in Alan Huffman, Joseph Davis, editors, Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The...

Synonyms of adroit

Antonyms

Forms of adroit

comparativeadroiter
comparativemore adroit
superlativeadroitest
superlativemost adroit

Origin of adroit

Borrowed from French adroit, from French à (“on the; to”) (from Old French a (“to; towards”), from Latin ad (“to; towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“at; near”)) + French droit (“right”) (from Old French droit, dreit, from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus (“laid straight; direct, straight; level; upright”), perfective passive participle of dīrigō (“to lay straight”), from dis- (“apart, in two”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice; in two”)) + regō (“to govern, rule; to guide, steer”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to be straightening, setting upright”))).

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Words that rhyme with adroit

Questions about adroit

What does adroit mean?
Adroit means deft, dexterous, or skillful.
What is adroit in Tamil?
Adroit in Tamil is திறமையான, அறிவுக்கூர்மை பொருந்திய‌, லாவகமாக. See Adroit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use adroit in a sentence?
[O]ne basic economic problem defeated the ingenuity of even the adroitest Italian bankers – the balance of payments.
What part of speech is adroit?
Adroit is an adjective.
How do you pronounce adroit?
Adroit is pronounced /əˈdɹɔɪt/ (UK).

Words near adroit in the dictionary

  1. adrogated
  2. adrogates
  3. adrogating
  4. adrogation
  5. adrogations
  6. adroit
  7. adroiter
  8. adroitest
  9. adroitly
  10. adroitness
  11. adroitnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adroit (page history and authors); adroit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adroit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adroit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adroit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); adroit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮਾਹਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); कर्णधार (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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