Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude:
— A lesser-known but no less skillful composer.
— The effect was achieved by skillful retouching.

synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful.

Roget 705: easy, facile; feasible etc. (practicable) 470; easily managed, easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to.    manageable, wieldy; towardly^†, tractable; submissive; yielding, ductile; suant^†; pliant etc. (soft) 324; glib, slippery; smooth etc. 255; on friction wheels, on velvet.    unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled; unrestrained etc. (free) 748; at ease, light.    [able to do easily] at home with; quite at home; in one's element, in smooth water; skillful etc. 698; accustomed etc. 613.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

Roget 702: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful etc. 698; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing etc. v.; strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving^†; artificial; tricky, tricksy^†; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand etc. (hidden) 528; subdolous^†; deceitful etc. 545; slippery as an eel, evasive etc. 623; crooked; arch, pawky^†, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle^†; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.    tactful, diplomatic, politic; polite etc. 894.    ... show more

Done with delicacy and skill.

synonym: nice.