Daedal \D[ae]"dal\, Daedalian \D[ae]*dal"ian\, a. [L. daedalus
cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. ?; cf. ? to work cunningly. The
word also alludes to the mythical D[ae]dalus (Gr. ?, lit.,
the cunning worker).]
1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful;
artistic; ingenious.
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Our bodies decked in our d[ae]dalian arms.
--Chapman.
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The d[ae]dal hand of Nature. --J. Philips.
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The doth the d[ae]dal earth throw forth to thee,
Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. --Spenser.
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2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.] --Keats.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
daedal
adj : complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal
hand of nature"
n : (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the
Labyrinth of Minos; to escape the Labyrinth he fashioned
wings for himself and his sone Icarus [syn: Daedalus]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "daedal":
Byzantine, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative,
balled up, bicolor, bicolored, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever,
colorful, colory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
convoluted, coordinated, crabbed, crack, crackerjack, crazy,
cunning, cute, deft, devious, dexterous, dextrous, dichromatic,
diplomatic, divers-colored, elaborate, embrangled, entangled,
excellent, expert, fancy, fouled up, good, goodish, gordian,
graceful, handy, harlequin, implicated, ingenious, intricate,
involuted, involved, kaleidoscopic, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian,
labyrinthine, loused up, magisterial, many-colored, many-faceted,
masterful, masterly, matted, mazy, meandering, medley, messed up,
mixed up, motley, mucked up, multicolor, multicolored,
multicolorous, multifarious, neat, no mean, parti-color,
parti-colored, perplexed, politic, polychromatic, polychrome,
polychromic, prismal, professional, proficient, quick, quite some,
ramified, ready, resourceful, roundabout, screwed up, shot,
shot through, skillful, slick, snarled, some, sophisticated,
spectral, statesmanlike, stylish, subtle, tactful, tangled, tangly,
the compleat, the complete, thunder and lightning, trichromatic,
trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, twisted, two-tone, varicolored,
variegated, versicolor, versicolored, virtuoso, well-done,
workmanlike
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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