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Definition of Skillful

Skillful
Skillful Skill"ful, a. [Written also skilful.] 1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] ``Of skillful judgment.' --Chaucer. 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. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. --Amos v. 16. Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Skill"ful*ness, n.

Meaning of Skillful from wikipedia

- A skill is the learned or innate ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills...
- Skillfulness (also released as Skillfullness) is an album by multi-instrumentalist Alan Silva. It was recorded in November 1968 in New York City, and was...
- Buddhism notes that rendering the Chinese term fāngbiàn into English as 'skillful' or as 'expedient' is often difficult, because the connotations shift according...
- "The Four Skillful Brothers" (German: Die vier kunstreichen Brüder) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 129). It is Aarne-Thompson...
- Hun history. Zhao Zhan, Han Dynasty General serving under Huo Qubing. Skillful on horseback melee skills. Lay Zhang as: Wang Jing, an ****istant of Professor...
- early Chan (Zen). All the various Buddhist meditation methods were simply skillful means which could lead a meditator to the buddha-mind within. Modern scholars...
- player—especially one whose turn at bat is not likely to come up again—for a more skillful fielder (known as a defensive substitution). The tactical decision that...
- February 2013. He also had a brief racing career but is best known for skillful driving at the Nürburgring. He parti****ted in the 1985 TT-F1 race on the...
- (like the Daśabhūmika) give a list of ten, with the addition of upāya (skillful means), praṇidhāna (vow, resolution), Bala (spiritual power) and Jñāna...
- House of Habsburg was dethroned. The Habsburg ruler and his advisors skillfully mani****ted the Croatian, Serbian and Romanian peasantry, led by priests...