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# skillful

adjective (skillful, more skillful, most skillful; also spelt skilful in British English)

«skillful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Skillful means very good at doing something with the hands or the mind, because you have practised or have a gift for it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#m1)
2. (old use) Skillful can describe a clever person who can find a way out of trouble. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#m2)

### In the lessons

in the lessons a skillful person is one who wins a contest or outwits others by cleverness, as the fisher does in the tale of the happy hunter

### Examples

- She is a skillful painter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#x1)
- The skillful fisher caught more fish than anyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#x2)
- You must be skillful to thread a needle this small. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#x3)
- Mum is skillful at baking bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «skillful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«skillful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/skillful.html) on Mova free.