Synonyms for skillful
ˈskɪl fəlskill·ful

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1. adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilfuladjective

   having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   dear, good, right, in effect(p), unspoiled, sound, serious, effective, upright, salutary, in force(p), skilful, practiced, dependable, estimable, technical, expert, secure, beneficial, proficient, full, honest, respectable, undecomposed, unspoilt, nice, ripe, just, safe, adept, honorable, well(p), near, practised

   Antonyms:
   imprecise, unskilled

2. nice, skillfuladjective

   done with delicacy and skill

   "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"

   Synonyms:
   dainty, courteous, skilful, overnice, proficient, good, gracious, squeamish, practiced, adept, nice, prissy, expert, decent

   Antonyms:
   unskilled, imprecise

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1. skillfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly, proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished

   Antonyms:
   unskillful, empirical, maladroit

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1. List of paraphrases for "skillful":

   skilful, skilled, adept, clever

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1. Epicurus:

   Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

2. Bill Clinton:

   When I became Bill Clinton ambassador for the Bill Clinton, Lavrov, Foreign Minister had been there 10 years already. So he was very skillful, he knew how to maneuver in Security Council. He was very formidable. And so we have Russia right now, very knowledgeable about Bill Clinton operations so that's an advantage that they have.

3. African Proverb:

   Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

4. Glenn Levine:

   Often we let our mind quickly react to something before we've truly had time to allow our higher levels of cognitive functioning, our prefrontal cortex, to weigh in, we want to pause, ponder and digest this, and take a couple seconds to decide what is the most skillful way to react.

5. Karl Kleinpaste:

   Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.