skilled

Having or showing skill; skillful.

Adjective

  1. Having or showing skill; skillful.
    • In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region. - 2008 February 27, Zhi Zhen, “Correcting One's Wrongdoings Changes One's...
  2. Requiring special abilities or training.
    • The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least...

Origin

Etymology tree English skill English -ed English skilled From skill (noun) + -ed.

Forms

more skilled most skilled

Synonyms

able artful habile accomplished adept adroit apt capable competent consummate conversant crack crafty deft dexterous expert facile fluent gain handy maestrolike masterful masterlike masterly

Antonyms

amateurish bungling clumsy inapt incapable incompetent inept inexpert maladroit unable unprofessional unqualified unskilled unskillful

Related

knowledgeable skill efficient excellent forte

Derived

a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor low-skilled multiskilled multi-skilled nonskilled semi-skilled semiskilled skilledly superskilled underskilled unskilled

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of skill

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.