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proficient
adjective
1 proficient
Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude:
— A proficient engineer.
synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful.
Roget 698:
skillful,
dexterous,
adroit,
expert,
apt,
handy,
quick,
deft,
ready,
gain;
slick,
smart
etc.
(active)
682;
proficient,
good at,
up to,
at home in,
master of,
a good hand at,
au fait,
thoroughbred,
masterly,
crack,
accomplished;
conversant
etc.
(knowing)
490.
experienced,
practiced,
skilled,
hackneyed;
up in,
well up in;
in practice,
in proper cue;
competent,
efficient,
qualified,
capable,
fitted,
fit for,
up to the mark,
trained,
initiated,
prepared,
primed,
finished.
clever,
cute,
able,
ingenious,
felicitous,
gifted,
talented,
endowed;
inventive
etc.
515;
shrewd,
sharp,
on the ball
etc.
(intelligent)
498;
cunning
etc.
702;
alive to,
up to snuff,
not to be caught with chaff;
discreet.
neat-handed,
fine-fingered,
nimble-fingered,
ambidextrous,
sure-footed;
cut out for,
fitted for.
technical,
artistic,
scientific,
daedalian†,
shipshape;
workman-like,
business-like,
statesman-like.
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2 proficient
Of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill.
synonym: technical.
noun
Roget 698:
skill,
skillfulness,
address;
dexterity,
dexterousness;
adroitness,
expertness
etc.
adj.;
proficiency,
competence,
technical competence,
craft,
callidity†,
facility,
knack,
trick,
sleight;
mastery,
mastership,
excellence,
panurgy†;
ambidexterity,
ambidextrousness†;
sleight of hand
etc.
(deception)
545.
seamanship,
airmanship,
marksmanship,
horsemanship;
rope-dancing.
accomplishment,
acquirement,
attainment;
art,
science;
technicality,
technology;
practical knowledge,
technical knowledge.
knowledge of the world,
world wisdom,
savoir faire [Fr.];
tact;
mother wit
etc.
(sagacity)
498;
discretion
etc.
(caution)
864;
finesse;
craftiness
etc.
(cunning)
702;
management
etc.
(conduct)
692;
self-help.
cleverness,
talent,
ability,
ingenuity,
capacity,
parts,
talents,
faculty,
endowment,
forte,
turn,
gift,
genius;
intelligence
etc.
498;
sharpness,
readiness
etc.
(activity)
682;
invention
etc.
515;
aptness,
aptitude;
turn for,
capacity for,
genius for;
felicity,
capability,
curiosa felicitas [Lat.],
qualification,
habilitation.
proficient
etc.
700.
masterpiece,
coup de maitre [Fr.],
chef d'euvre [Fr.],
tour de force;
good stroke
etc.
(plan)
626.
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Roget 700:
proficient,
expert,
adept,
dab;
dabster†,
crackerjack;
connoisseur
etc.
(scholar)
492;
master,
master hand;
prima donna [Sp.],
first fiddle,
top gun,
chef de cuisine,
top sawyer;
protagonist;
past master;
mahatma.
picked man;
medallist,
prizeman†.
veteran;
old stager,
old campaigner,
old soldier,
old file,
old hand;
man of business,
man of the world.
nice hand,
good hand,
clean hand;
practiced hand,
experienced eye,
experienced hand;
marksman;
good shot,
dead shot,
crack shot;
ropedancer,
funambulist†,
acrobat;
cunning man;
conjuror
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
wizard
etc.
994.
genius;
mastermind,
master head,
master spirit.
cunning blade,
sharp blade,
sharp fellow;
jobber;
cracksman
etc.
(thief)
792†;
politician,
tactician,
strategist.
pantologist†,
admirable Crichton,
Jack of all trades;
prodigy of learning.
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Moby thesaurus: Daedalian, able, accomplished, ace, adapted, adept, adequate, adjusted, adroit, apt, archetypical, artist, artiste, artistic, au fait, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, capable, checked out, classic, clean, clever, competent, consummate, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, developed, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, equal to, excellent, exemplary, exercised, experienced, expert, fancy, finished, first-rate, fit, fitted, fully developed, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, knowledgeable, magisterial, master, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, neat, no mean, past master, perfected, polished, politic, practiced, productive, professional, qualified, quick, quintessential, quite some, ready, refined, resourceful, ripe, ripened, skilled, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike, stylish, suited, tactful, talented, the compleat, the complete, top-notch, up to, veteran, virtuoso, well-done, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, well-versed, whiz, wizard, workmanlike ... show more.
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