Synonyms: skilled
Definition: having or showing or requiring special skill
Usage: 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
Similar words: complete, accomplished
Definition: highly skilled
Usage: an accomplished pianist; a complete musician
Similar words: adept, skilful, skillful, expert, practiced, proficient, good
Definition: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Usage: adept in handicrafts; an adept juggler; an expert job; a good mechanic; a practiced marksman; a proficient engineer; a lesser-known but no less skillful composer; the effect was achieved by skillful retouching
Similar words: arch
Definition: expert in skulduggery
Usage: an arch criminal
Similar words: ball-hawking
Definition: used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit
Usage: a ball-hawking center fielder
Similar words: masterful, masterly, consummate, virtuoso
Definition: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Usage: a consummate artist; consummate skill; a masterful speaker; masterful technique; a masterly performance of the sonata; a virtuoso performance
Similar words: delicate
Definition: marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
Usage: a surgeon's delicate touch
Similar words: hot
Definition: performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
Usage: a hot drummer; he's hot tonight
Similar words: mean
Definition: excellent
Usage: famous for a mean backhand
Similar words: sure-handed
Definition: proficient and confident in performance
Usage: promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts
Similar words: technical, expert
Definition: of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
Usage: technical terminology; a technical report; technical language
Similar words: versatile
Definition: competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another
Usage: a versatile writer