What is another word for deftly?

Pronunciation: [dˈɛftli] (IPA)

Deftly is an adverb used to describe someone who is skillful and efficient in their actions. This word may be used to describe someone who handles tasks effectively or who performs tasks with precision. Alternatives to deftly include adverbs such as adeptly or expertly, indicating someone who can handle tasks with ease. Skilfully and dexterously are also possible synonyms, describing someone who has the necessary skills to carry out tasks with precision. Finally, nimbly, with agility, and adeptly also work as synonyms for deftly, highlighting the ability to move with dexterity and ease. All of these words imply a level of proficiency and capability, making them perfect synonyms to use.

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What are the hypernyms for Deftly?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for deftly?

The term "deftly" refers to the ability to perform tasks skillfully and efficiently. Some antonyms for this term include awkwardly, inexpertly, clumsily, ineptly, and unskillfully. These words suggest a lack of finesse, dexterity, and capability, and imply difficulty in completing tasks with ease or precision. Someone who acts awkwardly may appear to be uncoordinated or ungraceful in their movements, while someone who acts inexpertly may lack the necessary knowledge or experience to perform a task effectively. In contrast, someone who acts deftly is perceived as being capable, confident, and competent. The antonyms, therefore, convey a sense of incompetence or a lack of skill in contrast to the adeptness indicated by the word "deftly".

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Usage examples for Deftly

But none so deftly.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
She passed the white-hot iron deftly through the rails to him, and fixed the fire for another heating.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
"She's a wonderful girl," he resumed, presently, while his hands glided deftly about here and there.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey

Famous quotes with Deftly

  • The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
    Andrew Cohen
  • A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness.
    Chase LeBlanc
  • It’s six months since I did the interview with Jeremy Paxman that inspired this book, and British media today is awash with halfhearted condemnations of my observation that voting is pointless and my admission that I have never voted. My assertion that other people oughtn’t vote either was born of the same instinctive rejection of the mantle of appointed social prefect that prevents me from telling teenagers to “Just Say No” to drugs. I cannot confine my patronage to the circuitry of their minuscule wisdom. “People died so you’d have the right to vote.” No, they did not; they died for freedom. In the case where freedom was explicitly attached to the symbol of democratic rights, like female suffrage, I don’t imagine they’d’ve been so willing if they’d known how tokenistic voting was to become. Note too these martyrs did not achieve their ends by participating in a hollow, predefined ritual, the infertile dry hump of gestural democracy; they did it by direct action. Emily Davison, the hero of women’s suffrage, hurled herself in front of the king’s horses; she defied the tyranny that oppressed her and broke the boundaries that contained her. I imagine too that this woman would have had the rebellious perspicacity to understand that the system she was opposing would adjust to incorporate the female vote and deftly render it irrelevant. This woman, who left her job as a teacher to dedicate her life to activism, was imprisoned nine times. She used methods as severe and diverse as arson and hunger-striking to protest and at the time of her death would have been regarded as a terrorist.
    Russell Brand
  • O Chatterton! that thou wert yet alive! Sure thou would'st spread the canvass to the gale, And love, with us, the tinkling team to drive O'er peaceful Freedom's undivided dale; And we, at sober eve, would round thee throng, Hanging, enraptur'd, on thy stately song! And greet with smiles the young-eyed Poesy All deftly mask'd, as hoar Antiquity.
    Thomas Chatterton
  • The tiny people were deftly building a house.
    Lewis Padgett

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