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Adjective: skilled  skild
  1. Having, showing or requiring special skill
    "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade"

See also: accomplished, adept, ball-hawking, competent, complete, consummate, delicate, experienced, experient, expert, good, hot [informal], masterful, masterly, practiced [N. Amer], practised [Brit, Cdn], proficient, skilful [Brit, Cdn], skillful [N. Amer], sure-handed, technical, versatile, virtuoso

Antonym: unskilled

Encyclopedia: Skilled