Definition of skilful

"skilful" in the adjective sense

1. adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

"adept in handicrafts"

"an adept juggler"

"an expert job"

"a good mechanic"

"a practiced marksman"

"a proficient engineer"

"a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"

"the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

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Quotations for skilful

What skilful limner ever would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues.
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? [ Scott ]

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. [ Stillingfleet ]

Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. [ Epicurus ]

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. [ Epicurus ]

To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. [ John Ruskin ]

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character: biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton. [ Willmott ]

There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other. [ Butler ]

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. [ Hume ]

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. [ Buffon ]

skilful in Scrabble®

The word skilful is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters skilful:

SKILFUL
(107 = 57 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

skilful

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word skilful

SKILFUL
(107 = 57 + 50)
SKILFUL
(106 = 56 + 50)
SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
(98 = 48 + 50)
SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
(66 = 16 + 50)
SKILFUL
(66 = 16 + 50)
SKILFUL
(66 = 16 + 50)
SKILFUL
(65 = 15 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In skilful

SKILFUL
(107 = 57 + 50)
SKILFUL
(106 = 56 + 50)
SKILFUL
(104 = 54 + 50)
SKILFUL
(98 = 48 + 50)
SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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skilful in Words With Friends™

The word skilful is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters skilful:

SKILFUL
(128 = 93 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

skilful

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word skilful

SKILFUL
(128 = 93 + 35)
SKILFUL
(122 = 87 + 35)
SKILFUL
(116 = 81 + 35)
SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
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SKILFUL
(52 = 17 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In skilful

SKILFUL
(128 = 93 + 35)
SKILFUL
(122 = 87 + 35)
SKILFUL
(116 = 81 + 35)
SKILFUL
(110 = 75 + 35)
SKILFUL
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Words within the letters of skilful

2 letter words in skilful (3 words)

3 letter words in skilful (5 words)

4 letter words in skilful (10 words)

5 letter words in skilful (4 words)

7 letter words in skilful (1 word)

skilful + 1 blank (1 word)

skilful + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence skilful

Words that start with skilful (2 words)

Words with skilful in them (3 words)

Words that end with skilful (2 words)

Word Growth involving skilful

Shorter words in skilful

ski

Longer words containing skilful

skilfully unskilfully

unskilful unskilfully

unskilful unskilfulness