| 单词 | dextrous |
| 释义 | dextrous (once / 1346 pages) adj If you're dextrous, you're graceful and skilled. A dextrous magician can wave her hands around and appear to pull a rabbit out of thin air. When you're dextrous, you have a physical skill — you could be a dextrous football player or a dextrous bass guitarist. You can also describe someone as dextrous who's a quick or clever thinker: "Her jokes are hilarious because she's really verbally dextrous." You can also spell this word as dexterous, and both versions have a Latin root, dexter, "skillful." WORD FAMILYdextrous: dexterity, dextrously+/dexterity: dexterities USAGE EXAMPLESPrimate archaeology is a new and unusual-sounding field, but it has revealed ancient evidence of some clever and dextrous monkey culture. BBC(Jul 11, 2016) Research into Robonaut's hands, which are design to be as dextrous and flexible as humans', fed into the creation of the RoboGlove. The Verge(Jul 06, 2016) Dweezil’s a dynamic, dextrous guitarist and leads his band through Frank’s oft-gymnastic structures and time signatures with a confident sense of purpose. Los Angeles Times(Jun 24, 2016) adj skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands Syn deft, dexterous adroit quick or skillful or adept in action or thought |
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