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having the ability to perform a difficult action quickly and skilfully with the hands: a dexterous movement. Baseball players have to be fast and dexterous. Raccoons have highly dexterous front feet that are shaped like human hands.
The meaning of DEXTEROUS is mentally adroit and skillful : clever. How to use dexterous in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Dexterous.
1. skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body. 2. having mental adroitness or skill; clever. 3. done with skill or adroitness. 4. right-handed. Also: dextrous SYNONYMS 1. deft, nimble, handy. 1, 2. expert, apt, able, quick. dexterous, adroit, deft, skillful, handy all imply facility and ease in performance. dexterous and adroit both ...
Synonyms for DEXTEROUS: handy, skilled, clever, skillful, cunning, deft, agile, expert; Antonyms of DEXTEROUS: clumsy, wooden, unhandy, handless, ungainly, uncomfortable, awkward, stiff.
To be dexterous is an essential trait for knitters and sleight-of-hand magicians. The adjective dexterous often refers to skill and agility with the hands, but it can mean any skillful or clever physical movement. A kid's dexterous ball handling and footwork can aid him on the soccer field.
Dexterous is still most often used to refer to manual or physical ability but can also refer to mental or social agility: a dexterous wood carver; dexterous management of a potentially embarrassing situation.
Definition of dexterous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
