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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dexterous \Dex"ter*ous\, a. [L. dexter. See {Dexter}.] [Written also {dextrous}.] 1. 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. 2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit --Pope. 3. Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as dexterous management. ``Dexterous sleights of hand.'' --Trench. Syn: Adroit; active; expert; skillful; clever; able; ready; apt; handy; versed. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dexterous adj : skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: {deft}, {dextrous}]
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