Definitions for adroit

adroit a·droit

Spelling: [uh-droit]
IPA: /əˈdrɔɪt/

Adroit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in adroit (adiort).

Definitions for adroit

adjective

  1. expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
  2. cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious:

Origin of adroit

1645-55; French, Old French: elegant, skillful, equivalent to a- a-5 + droit, dreit straight, just, correct Latin dīrēctus; see direct<

Examples for adroit

I am trailing two of the most adroit villains that ever committed crime.

And the tea-party, under Gino's adroit management, receded ever and ever before her.

Sometimes, to be unmemorable is to be adroit; and tonight, Obama was deeply unmemorable—and very adroit.

These were adroit, and posed as her friends while plotting the ruin of both.

In Petraeus, Obama also gets an Afghan commander as adroit at handling the press as McChrystal was suicidal.

Naturally the variations are sheer Barrie and of the most adroit.

Modern circumstances require an adroit approach to the manner in which our foreign policy is being implemented.

He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

Lady Constance was a distinguished beauty of two seasons; fresh, but adroit.

The brand had been changed by an adroit touch or two of a running-iron.

Word Value for adroit
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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