adroit

adroit englannista suomeksi

1. kätevä, näppärä, taitava

adroit englanniksi

1. Deft, dexterous, or skillful.

2. (quote-book), (w); and G. and J. Robinson, (w)|year=1803|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=itdFAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PP6|oclc=4772793|passage=A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.

3. (quote-book), 62, (w); John Brooks, 421, (w)|year=1829|page=424|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbgHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA424|oclc=5193115|passage=While the press has teemed with a thousand better modes of defending Christianity, unbelievers had been asleep all the while, and dreamed of no adroiter methods of attacking it: (..)

4. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

5. (quote-book)

6. skilful, apt, skilled (possessing skill, skilled)