Word: 'deft' • Extended Annotations

deft

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore of deft

15^th century, "apt or dexterous, subtly clever or skillful"

from Old English gedæfte "gentle, becoming" which split into different forms and senses.
See daft

deft adjective
noun: deftness; adverb: deftly

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense