skillfully

English

Alternative forms

• skilfully

Etymology

From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

skillfully (comparative more skillfully, superlative most skillfully)

1. In a skillful manner; with skill.
   • 1867, Leigh Burton, American Journal of Dental Science, page 180:

     On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.

Synonyms

• handily

Translations

in a skillful manner

Catalan: hàbilment (ca) Esperanto: lerte Galician: habilmente German: geschickt (de) Greek: Ancient: ἐπισταμένως (epistaménōs) Hungarian: ügyesen (hu) Korean: 익히 (ko) (ikhi) Middle English: sleighly, douȝtily Swedish: skickligt (sv)