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Definition of Skilled
1. Adjective. Having or showing or requiring special skill. "A skilled trade"
Similar to: Accomplished, Complete, Adept, Expert, Good, Practiced, Proficient, Skilful, Skillful, Arch, Ball-hawking, Consummate, Masterful, Masterly, Virtuoso, Delicate, Hot, Mean, Sure-handed, Expert, Technical, Versatile
Antonyms: Unskilled
Definition of Skilled
1. a. Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
Definition of Skilled
1. Adjective. Having or showing skill; skilful. ¹
2. Adjective. Requiring special abilities or training. ¹
3. Verb. (past of skill#Verb skill) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skilled
1. skill [adj] - See also: skill
Medical Definition of Skilled
1. Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skilled
Literary usage of Skilled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1912)
"Men can learn to pull levers more easily than they can reach the skilled mastery
of a position where the greatest dependence is on the man and the least on ..."
2. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1912)
"Men can learn to pull levers more easily than they can reach the skilled mastery
of a position where the greatest dependence is on the man and the least on ..."
3. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"Men can learn to pull levers more easily than they can reach the skilled mastery
of a position where the greatest dependence is on the man and the least on ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"A man might be a skilled workman in some particular trade, ... Take, for instance,
the case of a skilled workman who was so intemperate that he was not able ..."
5. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"COMPENSATION OF skilled LABOR. BY J. RICHARDS. [John Richards, engineer; has been
president of the Technical Society of the Pacific coast; he has spent more ..."
6. Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality by Richard Kohl (2003)
"would obtain if there were some barriers to trade. Suppose then, to fix ideas,
that only skilled labour migration is possible (brain ..."
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