Adroit

Definitions: Adroit

Adroit

Adjective

1. Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; "cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician"; "came up with a clever story"; "an ingenious press agent"; "an ingenious scheme".

2. Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought; "an exceptionally adroit pianist"; "an adroit technician"; "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers"; "an adroit negotiator".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adroit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Adroit \A*droit"\, adjective. [French expression adroit; [`a] (L. ad) droit straight, right, from the Latin expression directus, past participle of dirigere. See Direct.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ADROIT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Adroit

Skill

Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing).

Crosswords: Adroit

French (able, adroit, clever, deft, dexterous, handy, nimble, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful).

Efficient, adroit, cooperative, not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way, so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

And lordy! The other's adroit for the lives in Detroit and is known to the neighbors as Enrico Fordi!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Adroit men have so many ways of imposing upon this good simple people.

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Afrikaan

lewendig (agile, alert, brisk, keen), kunstig (able, artificial, artistic, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful), behendig (able, ably, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful), bedrewe (able, clever, dexterous, experienced, expert, practised, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful). (various references)

Albanian

mendjefemër, i zoti (able, accomplished, capable, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, fool, natty, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skillful), i shkathët (agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماهر (adept, astute, clever, consummate, deft, ingenious, nimble, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, sound, subtle), ‏نشيط (active, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), ‏لبق (clever, diplomatic, refined, skilful, skillful, smart, suave, tactful, urbane), ‏حاذق (clever, dexterous, dextrous, ingenious, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful, subtle), ‏داهية (artful, astute, pawky, quizzical, resourceful, shifty, shrewd, sly), ‏بارع (able, accomplished, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сръчен (able, agile, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, handy, ingenious, knacky, knowing, light-handed, neat-handed, practised, pretty, skilful, skillful, smart, two-handed), умел (able, adept, dextrous, perfect, practised, scientific, subtle, tactical), находчив (clever, ingenious, inventive, mercurial, quick-witted, ready-witted, resourceful, shifty, smart), ловък (able, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), изкусен (clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, masterful, mean, neat, proficient, scientific, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, technic, technical, tricksy, versed, workmanlike). (various references)

Catalan

despert (able, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful). (various references)

Chinese 

娴熟 (Adept). (various references)

Czech

zruèný (dexterous, habile, handy, knacky), schopný (able, apt, capable, competent, efficient, fit, sailorly, teachable, workable), pohotový (nimble, offhand, Pat, prompt, quick, ready, swift), obratný (deft, dexterous, natty, sailorly, skilly). (various references)

Danish

livlig (agile, alert, brisk, keen, lively). (various references)

Dutch

wakker (agile, alert, awake, brisk, keen), vief (agile, alert, brisk, keen), vaardig (able, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful), tierig (agile, alert, brisk, keen), rap (agile, alert, brisk, keen), opgewekt (agile, alert, animated, brisk, cheerful, gay, keen, lively, merry), levendig (agile, alert, animated, brisk, keen, lively), kwiek (agile, alert, brisk, keen), kras (agile, alert, block rake, brisk, cut, graze, keen, scratch), handig (able, ably, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful), druk (agile, alert, animated, brisk, busy, compression, edition, impression, keen, lively, pressure, print), bekwaam (able, ably, capable, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful), behendig (able, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful), bedreven (able, clever, dexterous, experienced, expert, practised, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful), býdehand. (various references)

Faeroese

vakin (agile, alert, brisk, keen), lívligur (agile, alert, brisk, keen), kátur (agile, airy-fairy, alert, brisk, cheerful, frolic, frolicsome, gay, keen, merry, petulant), dugnaligur (able, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful). (various references)

Farsi 

ماهر (Adept, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Great, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Natty, Pert, Proficient, Skillful, Slick, Understanding, Workmanlike), چیره دست (Dexterous, Dextrous, Master), چالاک (Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Handy, Jimmy, Lissome, Natty, Nimble, Nippy, Pawky, Peppy, Prompt, Sprightly, Spry), چابک (Agile, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Perky, Quick, Rapid, Speedy, Spry, Swift), تردست (Juggler, Nimble, Yare), زیرک (Acute, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), زرنگ (Agile, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Snide, Spry), زبردست (Adept, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Industrious, Proficient). (various references)

Finnish

taitava (able, clever, dexterous, expert, handy, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful). (various references)

French

habile, adroit, actif. (various references)

German

gewandt (able, adroitly, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, deftly, dexterous, dexterously, fluently, glib, glibly, handily, keen, neat, neatly, nimble, proficient, ready, skilful, skilled, skillful, skillfully, urbane, urbanely, versa, versus, voluble, volubly), geschickt (able, ably, adept, agile, agilely, capably, clever, cleverly, competently, cunningly, deft, deftly, dexterous, expert, expertly, glibly, handy, ingenious, neatly, nimble, proficient, shrewd, shrewdly, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully). (various references)

Greek 

επιδέξιοσ (artful, deft, dexterous, dextrous, great at, manipulator, masterful, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick). (various references)

Hebrew 

פקחי (astute, clever, intelligent, knowing), זריז (agile, alert, dexterous, mercurial, nimble, quick, spanking, swift). (various references)

Hungarian

ügyes (able, adept, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, habile, handy, ingenious, masterly, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, slick, to know how many beans make five, versatile). (various references)

Indonesian

lihai (cagey, sly), gesit (nimble, skillful), cerdas (agile, brainy, brilliant, educated, intelligent, mentally agile), cekatan (adept, deft, handy, nimble). (various references)

Italian

destro (able, agile, artful, clever, deft, Dexter, dexterous, dextrous, direct, handy, off, proficient, right, right hand, righthand, skilful, skillful, straight), abile (able, adept, artful, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, facile, fit, handy, knowing, masterful, masterly, proficient, skilful, skillful), sveglio (able, alert, awake, brainy, bright, clever, cute, deft, dexterous, downy, proficient, quick, sharp, skillful, smart, wakeful, wide awake), lesto (able, clever, deft, dexterous, nimble, proficient, quick, skillful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

如才無い (cautious, clever, shrewd, smart, tactful), 如才ない (cautious, clever, shrewd, smart, tactful), 如才 (affable, clever, sharp, skillful, slick, smart, smooth-tongued). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じょさいない (cautious, clever, shrewd, smart, tactful), じょさい (affable, clever, deacon, sharp, skillful, slick, smart, smooth-tongued). (various references)

Korean 

교묘한 (Artful, Dexterous, dextrous). (various references)

Manx

schleioil (dexterous, ingenious, practised, skilful, skilled, talented), jesh-laueagh (adept, ambidexterous, ambidextrous, deft, dexterous, handy, slick), abyl (able-bodied, businesslike, capable, powerful, slick, smart). (various references)

Norwegian

behendig. (various references)

Papiamen

hèndi (able, clever, dexterous, proficient, skillful). (various references)

Pig Latin

adroitay

Portuguese

hábil (able, artful, canny, capable, cattish, circumspective, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, habile, ingenious, knacky, light-handed, neat, neat-handed, practitioner, skilful, skilled, skillful), ágil (able, active, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light footed, lightsome, limber, lissome, list, lithe, lithium, nimble, skillful, springy, spry, volant). (various references)

Romanian

abil (apt, artful, artistic, artistical, astute, clean, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, natty, qualified, ready, resourceful, sharp, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile), isteţ (clever, cunning, cute, fast, forward, mercurial, natty, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-sighted, smart, spirited), iscusit (able, apt, argute, clean, clever, cute, daedal, deft, ingenious, learned, ready, sharp-sighted, skilful, skilled, skillful, workmanlike), dibaci (artful, clever, deft, dexterous, handy, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, sly, subtle, tricky), îndemânatic (adroitly, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, handy, light-handed, natty, skilful, skillful, slick, subtle, tricky, workmanlike). (various references)

Russian 

находчивый (cute, gumptious, quickwitted, quick-witted, ready-witted, resourceful, shifty, tricky), ловкий (adept, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodgy, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, light-handed, natty, neat, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tactical, tricky), искусный (artful, daedal, deft, delicate, habile, hackish, handy, ingenious, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skilled, underwater, well-made, workmanlike). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vešt (able, accomplished, adept, artful, clever, cunning, daedal, deft, dexterous, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, proficient, sciential, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, tall), spretan (deft, dexterous, habile, handy, neat-handed, nimble, skilled, wieldy), snalažljiv (cagey, clever, resourceful, worldly wise). (various references)

Spanish

hábil (able, accomplished, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, handy, light-handed, masterly, neat, neat-handed, nifty, practised, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick), diestro (able, anestrus, anoestrus, artful, clever, dab hand, Dexter, dexterous, dextrous, dioestrus, handy, proficient, right, right handed, skilful, skilled, skillful), experto (able, accomplished, Ace, adept, clever, connoisseur, dexterous, experienced, expert, Judge, knowledgeable, nifty, nimble, practiced, practised, proficient, seasoned, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful), ágil (able, agile, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

snabb (clipping, darting, double quick, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleeting, hurried, lightsome, precipitatious, precipitous, presto, rapid, ready, smart, spanking, swift), skicklig (able, ably, accomplished, adept, be cunning, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, expert, fine, handsome, ingenious, knacky, knowing, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful), livlig (agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, snappy, vital, vivacious, volatile), livaktig (agile, alert, brisk, keen), habil (clever), händig (deft, dexterous, dextrous, handy, wieldy). (various references)

Turkish

usta (adept, artist, connoisseur, constructor, craftsman, dab, dabster, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, facile, hand, ingenious, intelligent, journeyman, master, old hand, proficient, shark, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtile, versed, whizz, wise, workman, Wright), eli çabuk (dexterous, dextrous, expeditious, fast, nimble-fingered, sharp, swift, swift-handed), becerikli (adept, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise). (various references)

Turkmen 

зakgan (deft, dextrous). (various references)

Ukranian 

спритний (agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), вправний (able, accomplished, artful, canny, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, deft, good, handy, jemmy, neat, neat-handed, nifty, practised, proficient), винахідливий (apposite, daedal, dedal, ingenious, inventive, nimble, quick-witted, ready-witted, resourceful, shifty), моторний (agile, alert, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, motor, nimble, nippy, ready, spry, volant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khéo tay (cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, light-fingered, neat-handed, nimble-fingered, skilful, workmanlike), khéo léo (ably, acrobatically, aptly, artistic, artistical, clever, deft, neat-handed, patent, skilful, workmanlike). (various references)

Welsh

medrus (clever, skillful), hyfedr (clever, expert, skillful), deheuig (dextrous, skillful). (various references)

solers, sollertia, versutus. (various references)

directum. (various references)

�. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adroit": adroiter, adroitest, adroitly, adroitness, adroitnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "adroit": maladroit. (additional references)

Words containing "adroit": maladroitly, maladroitness, maladroitnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adroit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adoic, adorata, adoret, adorit, adrain, adrcit, adriot, adroi, adroid, adroite, adroity, adrupt, adtoit, aeroit, Aerolite, andraitx, androit, Androuet, Ardeotis, Arditi, Ardito, Ardouin, Arduil, ariot, Aroi, Aroint, aroot, Arruti, atrit, audrain, aurait, Badoit, baudroie, Druitt, edroit, eroit, orhoit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aroid, droit, radio, ratio, tardo, triad.

-2 letters: adit, airt, arid, dart, dato, dirt, dita, doat, doit, drat, iota, orad, raid, rato, riot, road, rota, roti, taro, tiro, toad, tora, tori, trad, trio, trod.

-3 letters: ado, aid, air, ait, art, dit, dor, dot, oar, oat, ora, ort, rad, rat, ria, rid, rod, rot, tad, tao, tar, tod, tor.

-4 letters: ad, ai, ar, at, do, id, it, od, or, ta, ti, to.

+1 letter: auditor, carotid, diatron, dilator, parotid.

+2 letters: additory, adroiter, adroitly, antidora, arointed, asteroid, auditors, auditory, carotids, ceratoid, deviator, diatrons, dicrotal, dictator, dilators, dilatory, dioptral, duration, idolater, idolator, idolatry, intrados, keratoid, mediator, ordinate, oribatid, parodist, parotids, parotoid, podiatry, radiator, rationed, sarodist, tailored, tandoori, teratoid, tornadic, toroidal, traditor, trinodal, tripodal.

+3 letters: abdicator, adoration, adroitest, amortised, amortized, arytenoid, asteroids, atrophied, auditoria, bacteroid, broadtail, charioted, chromatid, dedicator, deviators, deviatory, dichromat, dictators, doctrinal, dominator, durations, editorial, estradiol, floriated, gladiator, gradation, granitoid, hydration, idolaters, idolators, indagator, indicator, inundator, maladroit, mediators, mediatory, meditator, midrashot, notarized, ordinates, oribatids, outdaring, outraised, parodists, parotoids, podiatric, predation, radiation, radiators, redaction, sarodists, steroidal, sudatoria, swordtail, tailboard, tandooris, thyroidal, tradition, trainload, trapezoid.

+4 letters: abdicators, achondrite, adjuration, admiration, admonitory, adorations, adroitness, adsorption, adsorptive, anthropoid, antidromic, antimodern, aromatized, arytenoids, asteroidal, audiometer, audiometry, auditories, auditorily, auditorium, authorised, authorized, bacteroids, botryoidal, broadtails, brominated, carotenoid, carotinoid, chromatids, clostridia, coadjutrix, contradict, coordinate, cordiality, deaeration, decorating, decoration, decorative, dedicators, dedicatory, defoliator, delineator, democratic, denigrator, depilatory, depositary, derivation, dermatosis, derogating, derogation, derogative, desiccator, designator, detraction, dichromate, dichromats, dictionary, dilatorily, disastrous, discordant, distrainor, divinatory, dogmatizer, dominators, dominatrix, downstairs, duplicator, editorials, elucidator, endometria, eradicator, estradiols, excoriated, factorized, federation, fluoridate, foredating, fornicated, fractioned, gladiators, gradations, graduation, hydrations, idolatries, idolatrous, immoderate, indagators, indicators, indicatory, induration, inordinate, intermodal, internodal, intradoses, inundators, inundatory, irradiator, isografted, judicatory, liquidator, meditators, meliorated, midrashoth, moderating, moderation, modularity, mordanting, narcotized, orchardist, ordainment, ordination, orientated, originated, ostracised, ostracized, outdrawing, outreading, outrivaled, outtrading, outwearied, ovaritides, parasitoid, parodistic, patronised, patronized, podiatries, podiatrist, predations, prismatoid, proplastid, radiations, radiolytic, radiometer, radiometry, radiophoto, readopting, reanointed, redactions, reobtained, repudiator, retailored, rhapsodist, rheumatoid, ritardando, solidarist, solidarity, sudatories, sudatorium, swordtails, syndicator, tailboards, tailorbird, tetraploid, toroidally, traditions, traditores, trainloads, trapezoids, trochoidal, vindicator, whiteboard.

+5 letters: achondrites, achondritic, adjudicator, adjurations, admirations, adorability, adsorptions, adumbration, advertorial, aggradation, ameliorated, anthropoids, antimoderns, antithyroid, apportioned, arthrodesis, artiodactyl, audiometers, audiometric, auditoriums, bichromated, boatbuilder, cardiopathy, cardiotonic, carotenoids, carotinoids, categorised, categorized, chlorinated, clostridial, considerate, constrained, contradicts, coordinated, coordinates, coordinator, counterraid, crystalloid, deactivator, deaerations, debarkation, decapitator, declaration, decorations, decorticate, defloration, defoliators, deformation, deformative, degradation, dehydration, delineators, demarcation, democratize, denervation, denigration, denigrators, denigratory, denominator, deportation, depravation, deprecation, depreciator, depredation, deprivation, derivations, derogations, desalinator, desecration, desiccators, designators, designatory, desperation, deteriorate, detractions, deuteration, diaphoretic, diarthroses, diarthrosis, diastrophic, diatessaron, dichromates, dichromatic, dictatorial, diffraction, dilatometer, dilatometry, dipterocarp, directional, directorate, directorial, disrelation, dissertator, distraction, distrainors, doctrinaire, doctrinally, dogmatizers, duplicators, editorially, elucidators, endometrial, eradication, eradicators, extradition, federations, feudatories, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, gradational, gradiometer, graduations, grandiosity, hydropathic, hydrostatic, indurations, intimidator, invalidator, invigorated, ironhearted, irradiation, irradiators, keyboardist, labradorite, lepidoptera, lionhearted, liquidators, madreporite, maladroitly, maledictory, mandatories, mandatorily, meteoroidal, moderations, motorcading, myocarditis, nonauditory, nondramatic, obliterated, orchardists, ordainments, ordinariest, ordinations, orthodontia, orthopaedic, outdragging, outdreaming, outrivalled, overtrading, overtrained, parasitoids, parathyroid, paratyphoid, partitioned, periodontal, podiatrists, preadopting, predication, predicatory, predominant, predominate, prismatoids, prodigality, propitiated, proplastids, radiational, radioactive, radiologist, radiolucent, radiometers, radiometric, radiophotos, radiotracer, reappointed, recordation, redactional, reductional, reeducation, rehydration, remediation, remotivated, renominated, reoxidation, repudiation, repudiators, reradiation, retardation, rhapsodists, ritardandos, roadability, shorthaired, solidarists, subordinate, sudatoriums, switchboard, syndicators, tailorbirds, tetraploids, tetraploidy, traditional, tragicomedy, trapezoidal, trepidation, trichomonad, unamortized, valedictory, vasodilator, vindicators, vindicatory, vociferated, whiteboards.

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