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SKILLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing or requiring special skill
Example:
a skilled trade
Classified under:
Similar:
accomplished; complete (highly skilled)
adept; expert; good; practiced; proficient; skilful; skillful (having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude)
ball-hawking (used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit)
consummate; masterful; masterly; virtuoso (having or revealing supreme mastery or skill)
delicate (marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique)
hot (performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy)
mean (excellent)
sure-handed (proficient and confident in performance)
expert; technical (of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood)
versatile (competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another)
Also:
competent (properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient)
experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)
Antonym:
unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb skill
Context examples:
An individual that lives at a healthcare facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living.
(Long-term Facility Resident, NCI Thesaurus)
Now that you have independent and somewhat rebellious Uranus in your third house of communication, you are showing that you are also skilled with language and analytical left-brain talents.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The patient died while in a medical center such as a hospital, skilled nursing facility (SNF), intermediate care facility (ICF), or a freestanding hospice center.
(Died in a Medical Facility, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
These findings imply that the first peoples were highly skilled at moving rapidly across an utterly unfamiliar and empty landscape.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
Refers to workers doing skilled or semi-skilled manual labor.
(Blue-Collar Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A healthcare facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living.
(Long-Term Care Facility, NCI Thesaurus)
“Canst not give a name to it, and thou so skilled in leech-craft?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You need the discipline of study, such as only skilled teachers can give you.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Ha! he is a man of good courage, and skilled in the use of all weapons.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You need the skilled teachers, the specialists in the art of imparting knowledge.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
