skillful

Adjective

Synonyms: adept expert good practiced proficient skilful nice

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

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”Synonyms: adept expert good practiced proficient skilful
done with delicacy and skill“a nice bit of craft”“a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer”“a nice shot”Synonyms: nice

Webster's Dictionary (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]