| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus.[Wordnet]. | |
| Adjective | 1. Complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature".[Wordnet]
2. Alt. of Daedalian.[Websters] 3. Being intricate, complex, complicated, involute or convoluted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being ingenious, resourceful or inventive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being clever, adroit, skillful, artful or proficient. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being skilled, skilful, workmanlike, expert or adept. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being masterly or masterful. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being tricky, knotty or dodgy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb daedally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (daedally) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective daedal.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DAEDAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1807. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DAEDAL
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Various; variegated.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] Alternative spelling of daedal. (references) | 2: [Adjective] skilful, ingenious 1950: Barquentine went into a form of a trance, the well-heads of his eyes appearing to cloud over and become opaque like miniature sargassos, of dull chalky-blue - the cataract veil - for it seemed that he was trying to remember the daedal days of his adolescence. — Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan. (references) | |
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