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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

showing or involving skill, cleverness, quickness, or grace;

e.g. He has a dexterous mind and is quick to grasp complex issues.

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Similar Words

Adroit

Ambidextrous

Artful

Athletic

Bravura

Coordinated

Cunning

Deft

Delicate

Double-jointed

Expert

Groundbreaking

Habile

Handy

Light-fingered

Loose-jointed

Masterful

Masterly

Multiskilled

Practiced

Sculpted

Skillful

Sure-footed

Sure-handed

Virtuoso

Well-done

Well-rounded

Workmanlike

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Opposite Words

Amateur

Artless

Awkward

Botched

Bungling

Butterfingered

Clumsy

Crude

Dilettante

Gauche

Gawky

Graceless

Ham

Ham-fisted

Ham-handed

Handless

Heavy-handed

Inartistic

Incapable

Incompetent

Ineffective

Ineffectual

Inept

Inexpert

Jackleg

Jerry-built

Jerry-rigged

Jury

Maladroit

Nonprofessional

Rough

Rough-and-ready

Rough-and-tumble

Rough-hewn

Rude

Stiff

Stilted

Uncomfortable

Uncoordinated

Uneasy

Ungainly

Ungraceful

Unhandy

Unprofessional

Unrefined

Unseasoned

Unskilled

Unskillful

Untrained

Untried

Unworked

Wooden

Would-be

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Related Words

Able

Accomplished

Ace

Adept

Adequate

Agile

Artful

Artistic

Capable

Clever

Competent

Complete

Consummate

Coordinated

Crack

Crackerjack

Creative

Cunning

Double-jointed

Educated

Expert

Facile

Fancy

Featly

Feline

Flexible

Good

Graceful

Gracile

Great

Habile

Imaginative

Ingenious

Innovative

Inventive

Light

Light-footed

Limber

Lissome

Lithe

Loose-jointed

Master

Masterful

Masterly

Neat

Nimble

Practiced

Professed

Proficient

Qualified

Skilled

Skillful

Smooth

Spry

Sure-handed

Versed

Veteran

Virtuoso

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