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 →

2) (old use) Skillful can describe a clever person who can find a way out of trouble. tree →

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 →
• The skillful fisher caught more fish than anyone. tree →
• You must be skillful to thread a needle this small. tree →
• Mum is skillful at baking bread. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skillful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.