skilled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪld/

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• Rhymes: -ɪld

Etymology 1

From skill (noun).

Adjective

skilled (comparative more skilled, superlative most skilled)

1. Having or showing skill; skillful.
   • 2008 February 27, Zhi Zhen, “Correcting One's Wrongdoings Changes One's Fate”, in Minghui‎^[1]:

     In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region.

2. Requiring special abilities or training.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:skilled

Derived terms

• a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
• low-skilled
• multiskilled, multi-skilled
• semi-skilled

 

Translations

having or showing skill

• Arabic: مَاهِر (māhir)
• Bengali: ওয়াকেফ (bn) (ōẇakeph)
• Bulgarian: вещ (bg) (vešt), опитен (bg) (opiten), изкусен (bg) (izkusen), кадъ́рен (bg) (kadǎ́ren)
• Catalan: hàbil (ca), destre (ca)
• Finnish: taitava (fi), taidokas (fi)
• French: habile (fr)
• Galician: destro m, xeitoso m, adoito m
• German: geschickt (de), gekonnt (de), gewandt (de)
• Hawaiian: noʻeau
• Hebrew: מְיֻמָּן (he) m (meyumán)
• Hindi: माहिर (hi) (māhir)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: sciliúil
• Italian: esperto (it)
• Japanese: 上手 (ja) (じょうず, jōzu)
• Kabuverdianu: jeitozu
• Khmer: ជំនាញ (km) (cumniəñ)
• Korean: 잘하다 (ko) (jalhada) (to be good at), 능숙하다 (neungsukhada)
• Latin: artifex, callidus, sollers, perītus
• Malay: mahir (ms)
• Maori: tautoohito
• Mapudungun: trüf
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)

• Ngazidja Comorian: -hodari
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dreven, erfaren (no), kyndig

• Polish: umiejętny (pl) m
• Portuguese: hábil (pt), habilidoso (pt), jeitoso
• Russian: квалифици́рованный (ru) (kvalificírovannyj), иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), уме́лый (ru) (umélyj)
• Sanskrit: ऋभु (sa) (ṛbhu)
• Spanish: hábil (es), diestro (es), habilidoso (es)
• Swedish: kunnig (sv), skicklig (sv)
• Thai: เก่ง (th) (gèng)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: betûft

requiring special abilities or training

• Bulgarian: квалифициран (bg) (kvalificiran)
• German: fachlich ausgebildet, fachlich unterwiesen, fachlich trainiert
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} bedreven (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} erfahren (de)

Etymology 2

From skill (verb).

Verb

skilled

1. simple past and past participle of skill

Anagrams

• de-skill, deskill