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SKILLFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skillful mean?
• SKILLFUL (adjective)
The adjective SKILLFUL has 2 senses:
1. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
2. done with delicacy and skill
Familiarity information: SKILLFUL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Synonyms:
adept; expert; good; practiced; proficient; skilful; skillful
Context example:
the effect was achieved by skillful retouching
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Derivation:
skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Done with delicacy and skill
Synonyms:
nice; skillful
Context example:
a nice shot
Similar:
precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)
Context examples
But it is, as she presently discovered, for her spirits began to rise, and her table to blossom under her skillful hands, the girls were very kind, and that one little act seemed to have cleared the atmosphere amazingly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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