skilled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪld/

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• Rhymes: -ɪld

Etymology 1

From skill (noun) +‎ -ed.

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:

     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.
   • 2024 November 4, Terese Eriksen Eldholm, “Norway increases minimum wage rates across key industries”, in Magnus Legal‎:

     The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.

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 — see also skillful

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)\ Danish: dygtig (da) Esperanto: lerta 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: दक्ष (hi) (dakṣ), कुशल (hi) (kuśal), निपुण (hi) (nipuṇ), पारंगत (hi) (pāraṅgat), 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 (la), callidus, sollers, perītus Malay: mahir (ms) Maori: tautoohito Mapudungun: trüf Mari: Eastern Mari: виян (vijan) Ngazidja Comorian: -hodari Norwegian: Bokmål: dreven, erfaren (no), kyndig Occitan: abil (oc) 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), capi (colloquial), caperuzo (es) (colloquial), habiloso (es) Swedish: kunnig (sv), skicklig (sv) Thai: เก่ง (th) (gèng) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: hunarli (uz) Vietnamese: lành nghề (vi) West Frisian: betûft

requiring special abilities or training

Bulgarian: квалифициран (bg) (kvalificiran) German: fachlich ausgebildet, fachlich unterwiesen, fachlich trainiert Mari: Eastern Mari: виян (vijan) Spanish: cualificado (es), especializado (es), capacitado (es)

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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