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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Daedalian, adept, adroit, advantageous, apt, artistic, auspicious, authoritative, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, bravura, braw, brilliant, bueno, capital, clean, clever, cogent, commendable, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, expert, fair, famous, fancy, favorable, fine, good, goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, handy, healthy, helpful, ingenious, kind, laudable, learned, magisterial, master, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, no mean, noble, pleasant, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, profitable, quick, quite some, ready, regal, resourceful, royal, skilled, slick, some, sound, splendid, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the complete, useful, valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-done, well-versed, wicked, workmanlike
Dictionary Results for skillful:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
skillful
    adj 1: 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" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced,
           proficient, skillful, skilful]
    2: done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job
       requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"
       [syn: nice, skillful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
   1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] "Of
      skillful judgment." --Chaucer.
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   2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready;
      expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful
      mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful
      at the organ; skillful in drawing.
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            And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
            such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
                                                  --Amos v. 16.
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   Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit;
        clever; cunning.
        [1913 Webster] -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. --
        Skill"ful*ness, n.
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