Word Meanings - DEXTEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. 2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous

Additional info about word: DEXTEROUS

1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. 2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit. Pope. 3. Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. "Dexterous sleights of hand." Trench. Syn. -- Adroit; active; expert; skillful; clever; able; ready; apt; handy; versed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEXTEROUS)

• Active
• Nimble
• agile
• lively
• sprightly
• brisk
• quick
• expert
• dexterous
• supple
• wide-awake
• prompt
• busy
• industrial
• diligent
• Adroit
• Handy
• skillful
• proficient
• clever
• Clever
• Able
• ready
• talented
• ingenious
• adroit
• gifted
• quick-witted
• well-contrived
• Near
• convenient
• useful
• helpful
• manageable
• Masterly
• Finished
• artistic
• consummate
• clear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEXTEROUS)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to DEXTEROUS)

• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• INGENIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• GIFTEDNESS
  The state of being gifted. Echard.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• BRISK
  1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• UNEXPERTLY
  In an unexpert manner.
• RETROACTIVE
  Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.