up to snuff

adjective

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

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