'Skillful' definitions:
Definition of 'skillful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot" [syn: nice, skillful]
Definition of 'Skillful'
From: GCIDE
- Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
- 1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] "Of skillful judgment." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. --Amos v. 16. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. [1913 Webster] -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Skill"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'skillful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Daedalian,
- 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