skillful

skillful
    adj 1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
           "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert
           job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a
           proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less
           skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful
           retouching" [syn: {adept}, {expert}, {good}, {practiced},
           {proficient}, {skillful}, {skilful}]
    2: done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job
       requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"
       [syn: {nice}, {skillful}]
    

Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
   1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] "Of
      skillful judgment." --Chaucer.
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   2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready;
      expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful
      mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful
      at the organ; skillful in drawing.
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            And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
            such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
                                                  --Amos v. 16.
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   Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit;
        clever; cunning.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv. --
        {Skill"ful*ness}, n.
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92 Moby Thesaurus words for "skillful":
      Daedalian, adept, adroit, advantageous, apt, artistic, auspicious,
      authoritative, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, bravura, braw,
      brilliant, bueno, capital, clean, clever, cogent, commendable,
      coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft,
      dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, elegant, estimable, excellent,
      expedient, expert, fair, famous, fancy, favorable, fine, good,
      goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, handy, healthy, helpful,
      ingenious, kind, laudable, learned, magisterial, master, masterful,
      masterly, neat, nice, no mean, noble, pleasant, politic, pretty,
      professional, proficient, profitable, quick, quite some, ready,
      regal, resourceful, royal, skilled, slick, some, sound, splendid,
      statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the complete,
      useful, valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-done,
      well-versed, wicked, workmanlike