skilled

Meanings

Adjective

• having or showing or requiring special skill
  • "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"
  • "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"
  • "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"
  • "a skilled trade"

Adj

• Having or showing skill; skillful.
• Requiring special abilities or training.

Verb

• simple past and past participle of skill

Synonyms

able, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, artful, capable, competent, consummate, conversant, crack, crafty, deft, dexterous, expert, facile, fluent, gain, handy, maestrolike, masterful, masterlike, masterly, masterous, practiced, professional, proficient, qualified, quick, ready, skilled, skillful, thoroughbred, tight, versed

Antonyms

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

Related Words

efficient, excellent, forte, knowledgeable, skill