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say it: uh-DROYT
adroit is an adjective meaning "quick or skillful or adept in action or thought". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adroit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.