Synonyms:1. ready, adroit, deft, adept, apt, clever, ingenious.
Skillful, skilled, expert refer to readiness and adroitness in an occupation, craft, or art.
Skillful suggests esp. 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. 
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