| 单词 | adroit |
| 释义 | adroit (once / 1274 pages) adj Someone who is adroit is clever and skillful. An adroit leader will be able to persuade people to go with his ideas. An adroit sculptor can turn a lump of clay into an object of great beauty. If you've ever studied French you know that droit means "right," both as in "right of free speech" and as in "left and right," and à droit means both "turn right" and "properly." Once English people borrowed à droit, they changed the meaning slightly, from doing something "properly" to "doing something well." You may have heard the expression "surprisingly adroit," as in, "For a guy whose wife does all the cooking, he is surprisingly adroit in the kitchen." WORD FAMILYadroit: adroitest, adroitly, adroitness+/adroitness: adroitnesses USAGE EXAMPLESTry seasonal beers from a dozen Old Dominion breweries, including Champion, Hardywood, Adroit Theory and Lickinghole Creek, at Mad Fox's annual celebration. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) The conductor Fabio Luisi brought insight and adroit technique to Rossini’s ambitious score, drawing fleetness, breadth and refinement from the excellent Met orchestra. New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) But if Vance is an adroit enough storyteller, he’s a fiercely astute social critic of the sort we desperately need right now. New York Times(Oct 10, 2016) adj quick or skillful or adept in action or thought an exceptionally adroit pianist an adroit technician his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers an adroit negotiator Syn|Ant clean, neat free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed clever, cunning, ingeniousshowing inventiveness and skill co-ordinated, coordinatedbeing dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements deft, dexterous, dextrousskillful in physical movements; especially of the hands handyskillful with the hands light-fingered, nimble-fingeredhaving nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets quick-wittedmentally nimble and resourceful artfulmarked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft maladroit not adroit bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handedlacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands inept, tactlessrevealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse uncoordinatedlacking the skillful and effective interaction of muscle movements nonmechanical, unmechanical(of a person) lacking mechanical skills awkwardlacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance |
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