Category:Skillful

Skill"ful, a. Etym: [written also skilful.]

1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [obs.] "of skillful Judgment." Chaucer.

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. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are Skillful of lamentations to wailing. Amos v. 16.

Syn. -- expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; Cunning. -- skill"ful*ly, adv. -- skill"ful*ness, n.