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daedal

/ˈdiːdəl/

daedal adjective: skilful, ingenious, cunning.

Adjective

daedal (comparative more daedal, superlative most daedal)

  1. Skilful, ingenious, cunning.
    • His daedale hand would faile, and greatly faint, / And her perfections with his error taint […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • The daedal hand of Nature.1708, [John Philips], “(please specify the page)”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC

daedal meaning in Bengali

daedal in Bengali

নিপুণ, উদ্ভাবনী, চতুর

Forms of daedal

comparativemore daedal
superlativemost daedal
alternative form (archaic)dedal
alternative form (archaic)dædal

Origin of daedal

From Latin daedalus, from Ancient Greek δαίδαλος (daídalos, “skillful”).

Words formed from daedal

Questions about daedal

What does daedal mean?
Daedal means skilful, ingenious, cunning.
What is daedal in Bengali?
Daedal in Bengali is নিপুণ, উদ্ভাবনী, চতুর. See Daedal meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is daedal?
Daedal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce daedal?
Daedal is pronounced /ˈdiːdəl/.

Words near daedal in the dictionary

  1. dadyl
  2. Dadys
  3. Dadzbóg
  4. DAE
  5. daebak
  6. daedal
  7. daedala
  8. Daedalean
  9. daedaleoid
  10. daedaleous
  11. daedalia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daedal (page history and authors); daedal (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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