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Definition of Skilful
1. Adjective. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude. "The effect was achieved by skillful retouching"
Similar to: Skilled
Derivative terms: Adept, Adeptness, Expertness, Proficiency, Proficiency, Skillfulness
Definition of Skilful
1. a. See Skilful.
Definition of Skilful
1. Adjective. possessing skill, skilled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skilful
1. skillful [adj] - See also: skillful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skilful
Literary usage of Skilful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Toward the end of the 16th century Alexander Hardy, a skilful playwright, ...
In the early 19th century the skilful mechanism of Scribe achieved popular ..."
2. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"Hoek or Hoeck, van, also written Houk, (JAN,) a Flemish painter of history, born
at Antwerp about 1600, was one of the most skilful pupils of Rubens. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the bush" because of his skilful delineation of the character of Australian
landscape. In 1886 appeared a collected edition of his verse, with a memoir. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and the skilful preceptors, who so accurately guided the steps of their royal
pupil, could not infuse into his feeble and indolent character the ..."
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