skillful
[ skil-fuhl ]
adjective
having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
showing or involving skill: a skillful display of fancy diving.
Obsolete. reasonable; rational.
Origin of skillful
1- Also especially British, skil·ful .
synonym study For skillful
1. Skillful, skilled, expert refer to readiness and adroitness in an occupation, craft, or art. Skillful suggests especially adroitness and dexterity: a skillful watchmaker. Skilled implies having had long experience and thus having acquired a high degree of proficiency: not an amateur but a skilled worker. Expert means having the highest degree of proficiency; it may mean much the same as skillful or skilled, or both: expert workmanship. See also dexterous.
Other words for skillful
Opposites for skillful
Other words from skillful
- skill·ful·ly, adverb
- skill·ful·ness, noun
- quasi-skillful, adjective
- qua·si-skill·ful·ly, adverb
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