Usually means: Skillful in using hands, agile.
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  1. dexterous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dexterous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dexterous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dexterous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dexterous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dexterous, dexterous: Wordnik
  7. dexterous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dexterous: Wiktionary
  9. dexterous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dexterous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dexterous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dexterous: Dictionary.com
  13. Dexterous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dexterous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dexterous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dexterous: Rhymezone
  17. Dexterous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dexterous: Free Dictionary
  19. dexterous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dexterous: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dexterous: Legal dictionary

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  1. dexterous: A Word A Day

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  1. dexterous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Skillful with one's hands.
adjective:  Skillful in some specific thing.
adjective:  Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully.
adjective:  (figurative, archaic) Skilled at argumentation; mentally skillful.

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