Another word for dexterous
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Adjective
Exhibiting or possessing skill and ease in performance
- Smooth, glossy, and slippery:
- Deftly executed; adroit:
- Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive:
- Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft:
- Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding:
- Easily or effectively used; convenient or useful:
- Easy to manage or handle. Used of a ship.
- Readily accessible or convenient in location:
- Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy:
- Working, acting, or done with ease and fluency:
- Arrived at or presented without due care, effort, or examination; superficial:
- Quick and skillful; adroit.
- Mentally quick and original; bright:
- Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands:
- Crafty; cunning:
- Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
Showing art or skill in performing or doing
- Possessing or exercising skill; expert.
- Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill:
- Quick and skillful; adroit.
- Exhibiting art or skill:
- Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.
- Artificial.
- Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
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Another word for dexterous
Modifier
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- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Having great inventive skill and imagination:
- Marked by or exhibiting originality or inventiveness:
- Having genius; brilliant.
- Mentally quick and original; bright:
- Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands:
- Crafty; cunning:
- Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy:
- Learning, thinking, or understanding with speed and dexterity; bright:
- Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen:
- Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft:
- Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding:
- Easily or effectively used; convenient or useful:
- Easy to manage or handle. Used of a ship.
- Readily accessible or convenient in location:
- Quick and skillful; adroit.
- Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
- Possessing or exercising skill; expert.
- Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill:
- Exhibiting art or skill:
- Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.
- Artificial.
Synonym Study
- Handy suggests skill, usually without training, at a variety of small tasks a handy man around the house
- Deft suggests a nimbleness and sureness of touch a deft seamstress
- Adroit adds to this a connotation of cleverness and resourcefulness and is now generally used of mental facility an adroit evasion
- Dexterous implies an expertness, natural or acquired, demonstrated in the ability to do things with skill and precision a dexterous mechanic
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