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How to pronounce dexterity in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms manual dexterity, sleight
Type of adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
Derivation dextrous

Examples of dexterity

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Vocally, he has the dexterity to pull off the score's trickier rhythmic numbers.
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It is a hybrid beer that shows the inventiveness and dexterity of craft brewing.
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With such social media dexterity Bieber has built himself a formidable platform.
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Next the researchers had a different group of students complete a dexterity test.
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Clinical duties require a reasonable level of manual dexterity and visual acuity.
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To pull this off, Mozeliak had to display considerable dexterity and diplomacy.
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Despite proving its dexterity on European circuits, the car has a fragile side.
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It would probably help some soldiers rebuild their hand strength and dexterity.
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One part color recognition, one part manual dexterity, one part spatial puzzle.
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More examples
  • Adroitness in using the hands
  • (dexterous) deft: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"
  • Fine motor skills are the coordination of small muscle movements which occur e.g., in the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. In application to motor skills of hands (and fingers) the term dexterity is commonly used.
  • Dexterity (also known as Funny Field in Japan) is a puzzle game by SNK that was released for the Game Boy in 1990. It is a game that consists of a square floor covered in 7 rows and 8 columns of tiles (56 tiles in total). The goal of the game is to flip all of the light tiles into dark tiles. ...
  • Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands
  • (dexterous) Skillful with one's hands; Skillful in some specific thing; Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully
  • Dexterity increases the minimum damage dealt by the character. For Archers, DEX determines the maximum damage dealt by their arrow attacks as well. For every 10 points of DEX, the character can also chain another heavy attack into a combo.
  • The measure of the robot's skill of completing specific difficult paths.
  • Any creature that can move has at least 1 point of Dexterity. A creature with no Dexterity score can't move. If it can perform actions (such as casting spells), it applies its Intelligence modifier to initiative checks instead of a Dexterity modifier. ...