adj
Meaning 1
Having or showing skill; skillful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
skilled
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/skɪld/
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rhymes with -ɪld
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CMU ARPABET: S K IH1 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Requiring special abilities or training.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of skill
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
having or showing or requiring special skill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unskilled
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English skill Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English skilled From skill (noun) + -ed.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَاهِر (māhir) — having or showing skill
- Bengali: ওয়াকেফ (ōẇakeph) — having or showing skill
- Bulgarian: вещ (vešt) — having or showing skill
- Bulgarian: опитен (opiten) — having or showing skill
- Bulgarian: изкусен (izkusen) — having or showing skill
- Bulgarian: кадъ́рен (kadǎ́ren) — having or showing skill
- Catalan: hàbil — having or showing skill
- Catalan: destre\ — having or showing skill
- Ngazidja Comorian: -hodari — having or showing skill
- Danish: dygtig — having or showing skill
- Esperanto: lerta — having or showing skill
- Finnish: taitava — having or showing skill
- Finnish: taidokas — having or showing skill
- French: habile — having or showing skill
- West-Frisian: betûft — having or showing skill
- Galician: destro — having or showing skill
- Galician: xeitoso — having or showing skill
- Galician: adoito — having or showing skill
- German: geschickt — having or showing skill
- German: gekonnt — having or showing skill
- German: gewandt — having or showing skill
- Hawaiian: noʻeau — having or showing skill
- Hebrew: מְיֻמָּן (meyumán) — having or showing skill
- Hindi: दक्ष (dakṣ) — having or showing skill
- Hindi: कुशल (kuśal) — having or showing skill
- Hindi: निपुण (nipuṇ) — having or showing skill
- Hindi: पारंगत (pāraṅgat) — having or showing skill
- Hindi: माहिर (māhir) — having or showing skill
- Irish: sciliúil — having or showing skill
- Italian: esperto — having or showing skill
- Japanese: 上手 (jōzu) — having or showing skill
- Kabuverdianu: jeitozu — having or showing skill
- Khmer: ជំនាញ (cumniəñ) — having or showing skill
- Korean: 잘하다 (jalhada) — having or showing skill
- Korean: 능숙하다 (neungsukhada) — having or showing skill
- Latin: artifex — having or showing skill
- Latin: callidus — having or showing skill
- Latin: sollers — having or showing skill
- Latin: perītus — having or showing skill
- Malay: mahir — having or showing skill
- Māori: tautoohito — having or showing skill
- Mapudungun: trüf — having or showing skill
- Eastern Mari: виян (vijan) — having or showing skill
- Norwegian Bokmål: dreven — having or showing skill
- Norwegian Bokmål: erfaren — having or showing skill
- Norwegian Bokmål: kyndig — having or showing skill
- Occitan: abil — having or showing skill
- Polish: umiejętny — having or showing skill
- Portuguese: hábil — having or showing skill
- Portuguese: habilidoso — having or showing skill
- Portuguese: jeitoso — having or showing skill
- Russian: квалифици́рованный (kvalificírovannyj) — having or showing skill
- Russian: иску́сный (iskúsnyj) — having or showing skill
- Russian: уме́лый (umélyj) — having or showing skill
- Sanskrit: ऋभु (ṛbhu) — having or showing skill
- Spanish: hábil — having or showing skill
- Spanish: diestro — having or showing skill
- Spanish: habilidoso — having or showing skill
- Spanish: capi — having or showing skill
- Spanish: caperuzo — having or showing skill
- Spanish: habiloso — having or showing skill
- Swedish: kunnig — having or showing skill
- Swedish: skicklig — having or showing skill
- Thai: เก่ง (gèng) — having or showing skill
- Uzbek: hunarli — having or showing skill
- Vietnamese: lành nghề — having or showing skill
- Bulgarian: квалифициран (kvalificiran) — requiring special abilities or training
- German: fachlich ausgebildet — requiring special abilities or training
- German: fachlich unterwiesen — requiring special abilities or training
- German: fachlich trainiert — requiring special abilities or training
- Eastern Mari: виян (vijan) — requiring special abilities or training
- Spanish: cualificado — requiring special abilities or training
- Spanish: especializado — requiring special abilities or training
- Spanish: capacitado — requiring special abilities or training
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