Dictionary Definition
skillful 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, 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]
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- (Commonwealth English) skilful
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Daedalian, adept, adroit, advantageous, apt, artistic, auspicious, authoritative, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, bravura, braw, brilliant, bueno, capital, clean, clever, cogent, commendable, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, expert, fair, famous, fancy, favorable, fine, good, goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, handy, healthy, helpful, ingenious, kind, laudable, learned, magisterial, master, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, no mean, noble, pleasant, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, profitable, quick, quite some, ready, regal, resourceful, royal, skilled, slick, some, sound, splendid, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the
complete, useful,
valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-done,
well-versed, wicked,
workmanlike