SKILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skilled mean? 

• SKILLED (adjective)
  The adjective SKILLED has 1 sense:

1. having or showing or requiring special skill

  Familiarity information: SKILLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKILLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing or requiring special skill

Context example:

a skilled trade

Similar:

accomplished; complete (highly skilled)

adept; expert; good; practiced; proficient; skilful; skillful (having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude)

ball-hawking (used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit)

consummate; masterful; masterly; virtuoso (having or revealing supreme mastery or skill)

delicate (marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique)

hot (performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy)

mean (excellent)

sure-handed (proficient and confident in performance)

expert; technical (of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood)

versatile (competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another)

Also:

competent (properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient)

experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)

Antonym:

unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)

 Context examples 

The youth's pale face flushed with the pride of the skilled workman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A subjective answer indicating the opinion of not being skilled.

(Not at all good, NCI Thesaurus)

A subjective answer indicating the opinion of being well skilled.

(Extremely good, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, ever since I ran wild as a lad in Ireland I have been a bold and skilled tree-climber.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hospice care can take place: • At home • At a hospice center • In a hospital • In a skilled nursing facility

(Hospice Care, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

She had studied literature under skilled instructors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And yet it could not be. It was impossible. Besides, I was not skilled in the speech of eyes. I was only Humphrey Van Weyden, a bookish fellow who loved.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They have certain professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities, as well as inclinations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day.

(Nursing Homes, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Ham was a boat-builder in these days, having improved a natural ingenuity in that handicraft, until he had become a skilled workman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)