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# adroit

«adroit» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very skilful and clever with the hands or body** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (adroit, more adroit, most adroit)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very skilful and clever with the hands or body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#m1)

2) Clever and quick at dealing with people or difficult situations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A book and exam word; in stories it praises a nimble thief, a juggler or a smooth talker. Phrases: «adroit at», «an adroit move», «adroit handling».

### examples

- The juggler was adroit with five balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x1)
- She gave an adroit answer to the tricky question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x2)
- The cat made an adroit leap onto the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x3)
- He is adroit at fixing bikes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x4)
- The captain's adroit steering saved the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x5)
- With adroit fingers she tied the knot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x6)
- Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/#x7)

### note

Adverb: adroitly. Opposite: clumsy, maladroit. Said «a-DROYT».

### In the corpora

- [English borrowed gauche to mean clumsy and adroit (from à droit) to mean skilful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adroit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adroit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.