practiced

English

Alternative forms

• practised (Commonwealth of Nations)

Pronunciation

• enPR: prăkʹtĭst, IPA^(key): /ˈpɹæktɪst/

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Adjective

practiced (comparative more practiced, superlative most practiced)

1. skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:

     [T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.

Translations

skillful or proficient as a result of practice

• Greek:

  Ancient: ἔμπειρος (émpeiros)

• Hindi: अभ्यस्त (hi) (abhyast), जँचा (hi) (jãcā)
• Latin: perītus

Verb

practiced

1. simple past and past participle of practice