skilful
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɪlfəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlfəl
Adjective
skilful (comparative more skilful, superlative most skilful)
- Non-US (including but not limited to Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, Jamaican, South African and New Zealand) standard spelling of skillful.
- 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 82:
- More than once have I spoken to willing listeners because of some one who had come under skilful kindly treatment in the hospital at Taiwan-fu.
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Derived terms
- skilfully
Translations
possessing skill, skilled — see skillful