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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin

Meaning of "adroit" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADROIT

From French à droit according to right, rightly.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADROIT

adroit  [əˈdrɔɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADROIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adroit is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ADROIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of adroit in the English dictionary

The definition of adroit in the dictionary is skilful or dexterous. Other definition of adroit is quick in thought or reaction.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADROIT


coit
kɔɪt
dacoit
dəˈkɔɪt
Detroit
dɪˈtrɔɪt
doit
dɔɪt
droit
drɔɪt
duit
dɔɪt
exploit
ˈɛksplɔɪt
introit
ˈɪntrɔɪt
maladroit
ˌmæləˈdrɔɪt
Massasoit
ˈmæsəˌsɔɪt
Nelspruit
ˈnɛlsˌprɔɪt
nooit
nɔɪt
overexploit
ˌəʊvərɪksˈplɔɪt
quoit
kɔɪt
schuit
skɔɪt
schuyt
skɔɪt
stoit
stɔɪt
toit
tɔɪt
trekschuit
ˈtrekˌskɔɪt
underexploit
ˌʌndərɪkˈsplɔɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADROIT

adrenalized
adrenally
adrenergic
adrenergically
adrenochrome
adrenocortical
adrenocorticotrophic
adrenocorticotrophic hormone
adrenocorticotropic
adriamycin
Adrian
Adrian IV
Adrian Quist
Adrianople
Adrianopolis
Adriatic
Adriatic Sea
adrift
adroitly
adroitness

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADROIT

a bit
benefit
bit
circuit
credit
cut it
Dieu et mon droit
dit
edit
exclusive OR circuit
exit
fit
for it
fruit
get it
go to it
have had it
hit
I have it
in the shit

Synonyms and antonyms of adroit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADROIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adroit» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adroit

Translation of «adroit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADROIT

Find out the translation of adroit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adroit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adroit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

熟练
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hábil
570 millions of speakers

English

adroit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निपुण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البارع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ловкий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adroit
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিপুণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adroit
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adroit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geschickt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

巧みな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교묘
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adroit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chăm chỉ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கைதேர்ந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निपुण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

usta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

abile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zręczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спритний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iscusit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιδέξιος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

behendig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skickliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

behendig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adroit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADROIT»

The term «adroit» is regularly used and occupies the 71.988 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADROIT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adroit

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QUOTES WITH «ADROIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adroit.
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Peter Kropotkin
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADROIT»

Discover the use of adroit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adroit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Computerworld
The answer is ADR/PC ADROIT. You already know the best way to train people to AIIIIIIIT. TIIE MIIST AIIIIANSEII AIII'IlIIIIlNli SYSTEM AVAILABLE. ADROIT is author-driven, not system-driven, so it lets you concentrate on using your creativity to ...
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Dictionary of Pharmacovigilance
ADROIT combines an imaging system, which stores documents as images on magnetic tape, with a relational database. Since its launch, it has substantially increased the speed of handling suspected ADR reports (90% of reports are scanned ...
Amer Alghabban, 2004
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InfoWorld
Program. EC BUI Fi: Wam F?: CSttOBSS Adroit allows developers to design pop- up help systems. tional measurement units. Firstcadd 2.0 requires 256K of RAM, MS-DOS 2.0 or higher, and a graphics card (Hercules, CGA, EGA, ATT 6300, or ...
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Adroit Class Minesweepers: Uss Adroit, Uss Annoy, Uss Excel, ...
Adroit class minesweepers References (URLs online) This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .
Books LLC, 2010
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Pinch Point
Adroit said, “We can handle it. The payoff will be larger and there'll be enough to go around. The key question is whether the operation is possible within the constraints we established for ourselves.” As they discussed their newest operation, ...
Foster Smith, 2000
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Computerworld
PRINCETON, NJ. — Applied Data Research, Inc. (ADR) last week disclosed it has decided not to sell its computer-based training system, Adroit, and instead has formed a separate division to handle product sales, marketing and development ...
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English Synonyms Discriminated
Adroit. Dexterous is latin and adroit is french, for right- handed : he who uses the right hand uses the more . skilful hand of the two ; hence these words, when employed metaphorically, signify ingenious. Dexterous is applied both to bodily and ...
William Taylor, 1850
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All the French You Use Without Knowing It: The Stories of ...
gauche. The English word adroit means dexterous, clever, or skillful, in using one's hands or mind. He was adroit at maneuvering through the bureaucracy. I admired his adroit handling of an awkward situation. He was very adroit with his tools.
Saul H. Rosenthal, 2010
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Proceedings of the Conference on Environmental Modeling and ...
Summary ADROIT is an interactive computer graphics system which is capable of rapid retrieval, statistical processing and graphical display of water quality data. It is used here to analyze trends in Soluble Ortho Phosphorus data collected on ...
Wayne Ott, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Planning and Management, 1976
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Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. ...
Path. Dependency. and. Adroit. Innovation: The. Case. of. California. Water. Helen Ingram and Leah Fraser Water problems are today so serious and so generally evident that the issue should claim a prominent place on the national agenda ...
Robert Repetto, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADROIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adroit is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why DC's 'gray market' is a good thing for beer lovers
And, more important to our local scene, those gray laws allow up-and-coming Virginia breweries such as Adroit Theory, Heritage and Ocelot to ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Chief Justice Roberts swats Obamacare to voters
Perhaps the most astute, adroit Hoosier in all of government, Long Beach-bred U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has now ... «Kokomo Perspective, Jul 15»
3
The Second Battle of Trafalgar:
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an adroit politician, exploited the incident in order to change fronts and reestablish Turkish influence in the Arab ... «Al-Jazeerah.info, Jul 15»
4
Saint Raymond album launched with two Bodega gigs
"There's nowhere else I'd rather launch my album", he announces defiantly, sipping a mojito from the Bodega bar, before reaffirming his adroit ... «Nottingham Post, Jul 15»
5
Tour de France heads into low country promising anything but flat calm
A particular skill at which lanky Dutch and Belgian rouleurs are particularly adroit, echelon riding provides much potential for inter-team ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Uri Avnery: The Second Battle of Trafalgar
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an adroit politician, exploited the incident in order to change fronts and reestablish Turkish influence in the Arab ... «Jewish Business News, Jul 15»
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Hartnett: Martin St. Louis Wore Rangers Sweater Proudly, Raised …
St. Louis had always been an adroit character, constantly finding new ways to defy Father Time. Studying him during last September's training ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
8
Obamacare - here to stay?
Perhaps the most astute, adroit Hoosier in all of government, Long Beach-bred U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has now ... «Batesville Herald Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Water Works goes to private dining
The politically adroit Karloutsos navigated miles of red tape in converting the Water Works into a restaurant. The $3.2 million project was ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
10
The EU's Future in the Wake of the Greek Crisis
... suggest a less monolithic Troika than one finds in some accounts—differences that a more adroit Greek side might have exploited. In fairness ... «The American Prospect, Jul 15»

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