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NEAT-HANDED

Date "NEAT-HANDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (references)


Synonyms within Context: NEAT-HANDED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Skill

Neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-footed; cut out for, fitted for.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: NEAT-HANDED

Specialty definitions using "NEAT-HANDED": Phyllis. (references)

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Modern Translation: NEAT-HANDED

Language Translations for "NEAT-HANDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i zoti (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, fool, natty, neat, proficient, skilful, skillful), i shkathët (adroit, 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, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сръчен (able, adroit, agile, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, handy, ingenious, knacky, knowing, light-handed, practised, pretty, skilful, skillful, smart, two-handed), ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ügyeskezû (clean-fingered, light fingered). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eat-handednay

   

Portuguese

  

hábil (able, adroit, artful, canny, capable, cattish, circumspective, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, knacky, light-handed, neat, practised, skilful, skilled, skillful), destro (able, adroit, clean, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, knacky, light-handed, natty, quick, righthand, right-handed, skilful, skillful, slick). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spretan (adroit, deft, dexterous, habile, handy, nimble, skilled, wieldy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hábil (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, handy, light-handed, masterly, neat, nifty, practised, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skicklig (able, ably, accomplished, adept, adroit, be cunning, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, expert, fine, handsome, ingenious, knacky, knowing, neat, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

умілий (able, artful, capable, clever, daedal, dedal, efficient, handicraft, industrious, neat, practised, proficient, skilful, skillful, workmanlike), вправний (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, canny, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, deft, good, handy, jemmy, neat, nifty, practised, proficient), майстерний (bijou, curious, daedal, dedal, dexterous, handicraft, masterful, masterly, natty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, technical, workmanlike). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NEAT-HANDED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-h-n-n-t"

-3 letters: andante, hennaed.

-4 letters: adnate, anteed, deaden, deaned, denned, dented, ennead, ethane, handed, hanted, headed, heated, hented, neaten, tanned, tended.

-5 letters: aahed, ahead, anent, antae, anted, dated, death, eaten, enate, ended, haded, hated, henna, neath, thane.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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