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Definition of Skillful
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
2. Adjective. Done with delicacy and skill. "A nice shot"
Definition of Skillful
1. a. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.
Definition of Skillful
1. Adjective. Possessing skill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skillful
1. having skill [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skillful
Literary usage of Skillful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes by Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes (1913)
"Coherence through skillful transitions. — Important as order is as a means of
... If we desire, then, to be unmistakably clear, we must make skillful ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"MEMORY OF A COMPLEX skillful ACT. By EDGAR JAMES SWIFT, Washington University, St.
Louis. During the winter of 1902 the writer investigated the learning ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... dealers in shoes, experienced and skillful operators and machinists in making
shoes, trimmings, sole* and all branches of the leather art. ..."
4. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"Before the start a very skillful Indian hunter had run off with half-a-dozen of Mr.
... skillful ..."
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