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This week's theme Words for physical characteristics used to describe people figuratively. This week's words louche clochard myopic dexterous ambisinister Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Missed a word? Check the archives chronological alphabetical thematic Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg dexterous or dextrous PRONUNCIATION: (DEK-struhs, -stuhr-uhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Skillful or adroit, mentally or bodily. 2. Right-handed. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dexter (right-hand, skillful). USAGE: "Paul Frazier was quietly dexterous on bass, always the stealth weapon in Mr. Byrne's music." Ann Powers; Same As He Ever Was; The New York Times, May 15, 2001. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (1941-2002)

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