Dexterous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEXTEROUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• skilful and active with the hands, also DEXTROUS
• showing or having skill, especially with the hands
• possessing or done with dexterity
• Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.
• Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.
• Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
• skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• mentally adroit and skillful; clever

Words related to DEXTEROUS

dexterously22 dexterousness21 dextrous16

Words that contain DEXTEROUS

dexterously22 ambidexterous25 dexterousness21 dexterousnesses23

How to use DEXTEROUS in a sentence

• Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious.
• And then notice the hopeless persistence with which he avoids your dexterous efforts and mentally lies down to worry his Ego again, like a dog with a bone.
• Being passionately fond of swimming, he became so dexterous that none could be compared with him.
• They know healthy from inflamed tissues, and run down, grab, and give one dexterous fatal shake to a tissue of lies.
• In both of which arts it was admitted that he was incredibly dexterous.
• Yet dexterous as they were, there was not one that had his skill, there was not one that could compare with him as an artist, as a workman, as a man.
• One very dexterous feat which the natives perform is to kill a bird as it flies from the nest.
• They are then held in one hand by the hind legs, and a dexterous pinch with the finger and thumb of the other at once removes the lower portion of the intestines.
• They will need dexterous manipulation because of their small size, but a skilful hand will transfer them without injury, and perhaps with a little soil adhering to the roots.
• They were so dexterous as to be able to serve up a whole pig boiled on one side, and roasted on the other.
• But Tracy and Bayard are too dexterous for them, and have very much influenced their proceedings.
• They consist of loose stones, and the inhabitants are very dexterous in shifting them with great quickness, to such situations, as the direction of the attack may require.
• But this distemper was soon cured by the rough but dexterous hand of Cromwell.
• The shock of the Turkish onset was effectually broken by the dexterous disposition made of the galeases of Venice.
• He was skilled in the use of his weapons and dexterous in managing his horse, and the Christians trembled for their champion.
• Dhananjaya is mighty and youthful, and dexterous and swift of hand.
• The epithet of sage is due unto them because they are surpassing dexterous in the knowledge of most things.
• So, by degrees, he was ushered nearer and nearer the great blazing fire, until by a dexterous push and shove he was hoisted into the seething kettle.
• The Difference of Time between the dexterous and awkard is, that the dexterous present and take the Time, and the others, give and lose it.
• All this time the doctor was continuing his labors, and Charley was amazed at the dexterous way he did things.
• Cnut at once assumed the aspect of an intoxicated person, and stretching forth his foot, with a dexterous shove pushed the stranger into the gutter.
• Nevertheless, by a little dexterous lying, and some vivid word-painting, she could make things extremely unpleasant for the couple.

Similar words containing XTEROU without suffix s and without prefix de

dexterously22 ambidexterous25 dexterousness21 dexterousnesses23

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