proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, expert mean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession. proficient implies a thorough competence derived from training and practice.

SKILLFUL definition: 1. US spelling of skilful 2. good at doing something, especially because you have practiced doing…. Learn more.

SKILLFUL definition: having or exercising skill. See examples of skillful used in a sentence.

Definition of skillful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

skillful in American English (ˈskɪlfəl ) adjective having or showing skill; accomplished; expert

For the adjective meaning with skill or having skill, skillful is the preferred spelling in American English, and skilful is preferred in all other main varieties of English.

1. Possessing or exercising skill; expert. See Synonyms at proficient. 2. Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill: a skillful ascent of the summit.