'Daedal' definitions:
Definition of 'daedal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature"
noun
(Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus [syn: Daedalus, Daedal]
Definition of 'Daedal'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Our bodies decked in our d[ae]dalian arms. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- The d[ae]dal hand of Nature. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster]
- The doth the d[ae]dal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.] --Keats. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'daedal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adept,
- adroit,
- apt,
- artistic,
- authoritative,
- balled up,
- bicolor,
- bicolored,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- Byzantine,
- clean,
- clever,
- colorful,
- colory,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- coordinated,
- crabbed,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crazy,
- cunning,
- cute,
- Daedalian,
- 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