Adroit

adroit
    adj 1: 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" [ant: {maladroit}]
    

Adroit \A*droit"\, a. [F. adroit; [`a] (L. ad) = droit straight,
   right, fr. L. directus, p. p. of dirigere. See {Direct}.]
   Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the
   mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding
   danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or
   execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit
   mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the
   telescope and quadrant." --Horsley. "He was adroit in
   intrigue." --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Dexterous; skillful; expert; ready; clever; deft;
        ingenious; cunning; ready-witted.
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "adroit":
      Daedalian, adept, adroitness, apt, artful, artistic, astute,
      authoritative, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, canny, clean,
      clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, craft, cunning, cute,
      daedal, deft, deftness, dexterity, dexterous, dexterousness,
      dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, expertise, fancy, gifted,
      good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, intelligent, keen,
      keen-witted, know-how, magisterial, masterful, masterly, neat,
      neat-handed, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, no mean,
      not born yesterday, perspicacious, politic, pretty, professional,
      proficient, prowess, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted,
      quite some, readiness, ready, resourceful, scintillating, sharp,
      sharp-witted, shrewd, skill, skillful, sleight, slick, slim, sly,
      smart, some, statesmanlike, steel-trap, stylish, subtle, tactful,
      talented, the compleat, the complete, virtuoso, well-done, wicked,
      workmanlike