Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonadroit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-adroit
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not adroit; clumsy; maladroit.

Example Sentences

"Speakers of basilect American English tend to have no more than a grade school education, if that, to be both culturally disadvantaged and socially nonadroit, and to be very noticeably poor in both competence and performance."
"Another factor against them is their nonadroit perambulatory capability to negotiate land mass."
"He may have no idea of the pressures and constraints under which Mr. Putin acts, but Mr. Trump is a one-man brake on a non-adroit hostility that doesn’t serve U.S. interests."

Etymology

From non- + adroit.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Inflected Forms

more nonadroit (comparative) most nonadroit (superlative)

Questions

What does nonadroit mean?: Not adroit; clumsy; maladroit.
Where does nonadroit come from?: From non- + adroit.

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