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Skillful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SKILL'FUL, a.
1. Knowing; well versed in any art; hence, dextrous; able in management; able to perform nicely any manual operation in the arts or professions; as a skillful mechanic; a skillful operator in surgery.
2. Well versed in practice; as a skillful physician.
It is followed by at or in; as skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful]
2: done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot" [syn: nice, skillful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. possessed of or displaying skill ; expert <a skillful chef> 2. accomplished with skill <a skillful treatment> Synonyms: see proficient • skillfully adverb • skillfulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

US var. of SKILFUL.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Skillful Skill"ful, a. [Written also skilful.] 1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] ``Of skillful judgment.'' --Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. --Amos v. 16. Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Skill"ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see skilful

Moby Thesaurus

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