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# skillful

«skillful» in Mova's school dictionary: **very good at doing something with the hands or the mind…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skillful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skillful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.