daedal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement mental_floss magazine Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix Click here to feel smart again!      Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 2, 2006   daedal \DEE-duhl\, adjective: 1. Complex or ingenious in form or function; intricate. 2. Skillful; artistic; ingenious. 3. Rich; adorned with many things.   Most Web-site designers realize that large image maps and daedal layouts are to be avoided, and the leading World Wide Web designers have reacted to users' objections to highly graphical, slow sites by using uncluttered, easy-to-use layouts. -- "Fixing Web-site usability", InfoWorld, December 15, 1997 He gathered toward the end of his life a very extensive collection of illustrated books and illuminated manuscripts, and took heightened pleasure in their daedal patterns as his own strength declined. -- Florence S. Boos, preface to The Collected Letters of William Morris I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal earth, And of heaven, and the giant wars, And love, and death, and birth. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn Of Pan" Daedal comes from Latin daedalus, "cunningly wrought," from Greek daidalos, "skillful, cunningly created." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for daedal   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6697686-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802