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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
- Example: "adept in handicrafts"
- Example: "an adept juggler"
- Example: "an expert job"
- Example: "a good mechanic"
- Example: "a practiced marksman"
- Example: "a proficient engineer"
- Example: "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"
- Example: "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"
[syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful]

2. done with delicacy and skill;
- Example: "a nice bit of craft"
- Example: "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"
- Example: "a nice shot"
[syn: nice, skillful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
   1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] "Of
      skillful judgment." --Chaucer.
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   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.
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   Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit;
        clever; cunning.
        [1913 Webster] -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. --
        Skill"ful*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, 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]