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nonadroit

nonadroit adjective: not adroit; clumsy; maladroit.

Adjective

nonadroit (comparative more nonadroit, superlative most nonadroit)

  1. Not adroit; clumsy; maladroit.
    • Speakers of basilect American English tend to have no more than a grade school education, if that, to be both culturally disadvantaged and socially nonadroit, and to be very noticeably poor in both competence and performance.1974, John A. Nist, Handicapped English: The Language of the Socially Disadvantaged, page 80
    • Another factor against them is their nonadroit perambulatory capability to negotiate land mass.2013, Neil M. Pine, The Conscious Planet, page 282

Forms of nonadroit

comparativemore nonadroit
superlativemost nonadroit

Origin of nonadroit

From non- + adroit.

Questions about nonadroit

What does nonadroit mean?
Nonadroit means not adroit; clumsy; maladroit.
What part of speech is nonadroit?
Nonadroit is an adjective.

Words near nonadroit in the dictionary

  1. nonadoring
  2. nonadorned
  3. nonadornment
  4. nonadrenal
  5. nonadrenergic
  6. nonadroit
  7. nonads
  8. nonadsorbable
  9. nonadsorbed
  10. nonadsorbent
  11. nonadsorbing

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