ADROIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adroit mean? 

• ADROIT (adjective)
  The adjective ADROIT has 1 sense:

1. quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

  Familiarity information: ADROIT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADROIT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

Context example:

an adroit negotiator

Similar:

clean; neat (free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed)

clever; cunning; ingenious (showing inventiveness and skill)

co-ordinated; coordinated (being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements)

deft; dexterous; dextrous (skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands)

handy (skillful with the hands)

light-fingered; nimble-fingered (having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets)

quick-witted (mentally nimble and resourceful)

Also:

artful (marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft)

Antonym:

maladroit (not adroit)

Derivation:

adroitness (skillful performance or ability without difficulty)

 Context examples 

All this I jotted down and felt that Holmes himself could not have been more adroit in collecting his facts.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She flung it back with a sudden adroit movement, and her face emerged, smiling.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)