skilled

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skɪld/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪld

Etymology 1

From skill (noun) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

skilled (comparative more skilled, superlative most skilled)

Having or showing skill; skillful.
- 2008 February 27, Zhi Zhen, “Correcting One's Wrongdoings Changes One's Fate”, in Minghui‎^[1]:
  In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region.
Requiring special abilities or training.
- 2024 November 4, Terese Eriksen Eldholm, “Norway increases minimum wage rates across key industries”, in Magnus Legal‎^[2]:
  The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:skilled

Derived terms

Translations

having or showing skill — see also skillful

Arabic: مَاهِر (māhir)
Bengali: ওয়াকেফ (bn) (ōẇakeph)
Bulgarian: вещ (bg) (vešt), опитен (bg) (opiten), изкусен (bg) (izkusen), кадъ́рен (bg) (kadǎ́ren)
Catalan: hàbil (ca), destre (ca)\
Danish: dygtig (da)
Esperanto: lerta
Finnish: taitava (fi), taidokas (fi)
French: habile (fr)
Galician: destro m, xeitoso m, adoito m
German: geschickt (de), gekonnt (de), gewandt (de)
Hawaiian: noʻeau
Hebrew: מְיֻמָּן (he) m (meyumán)
Hindi: दक्ष (hi) (dakṣ), कुशल (hi) (kuśal), निपुण (hi) (nipuṇ), पारंगत (hi) (pāraṅgat), माहिर (hi) (māhir)
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: sciliúil
Italian: esperto (it)
Japanese: 上手 (ja) (じょうず, jōzu)
Kabuverdianu: jeitozu
Khmer: ជំនាញ (km) (cumniəñ)
Korean: 잘하다 (ko) (jalhada) (to be good at), 능숙하다 (neungsukhada)
Latin: artifex (la), callidus, sollers, perītus
Malay: mahir (ms)
Maori: tautoohito
Mapudungun: trüf
Mari:
Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)
Ngazidja Comorian: -hodari
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dreven, erfaren (no), kyndig
Occitan: abil (oc)
Polish: umiejętny (pl) m
Portuguese: hábil (pt), habilidoso (pt), jeitoso
Russian: квалифици́рованный (ru) (kvalificírovannyj), иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), уме́лый (ru) (umélyj)
Sanskrit: ऋभु (sa) (ṛbhu)
Spanish: hábil (es), diestro (es), habilidoso (es), capi (colloquial), caperuzo (es) (colloquial), habiloso (es)
Swedish: kunnig (sv), skicklig (sv)
Thai: เก่ง (th) (gèng)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: hunarli (uz)
Vietnamese: lành nghề (vi)
West Frisian: betûft

requiring special abilities or training

Bulgarian: квалифициран (bg) (kvalificiran)
German: fachlich ausgebildet, fachlich unterwiesen, fachlich trainiert
Mari:
Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)
Spanish: cualificado (es), especializado (es), capacitado (es)

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Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} bedreven (nl)
German: ^{(please verify)} erfahren (de)

Etymology 2

From skill (verb).

Verb

skilled

simple past and past participle of skill

Anagrams

de-skill, deskill