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practiced

/ˈpɹæktɪst/

practiced adjective: skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice. Also the simple past and past participle of practice.

Adjective

practiced (comparative more practiced, superlative most practiced)

  1. skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice
    • [T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26

Also used as

practiced is also the simple past and past participle of practice.

practiced meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Odia and Nepali

practiced in Hindi

skillful or proficient as a result of practice
अभ्यस्त abhyast, जँचा jãcā

practiced in Telugu

సాధన చేస్కున్నారు

practiced in Odia

ଅଭ୍ଯ଼ାସ କଲେ

practiced in Nepali

अभ्यास गरे

Examples of practiced in a sentence

  • I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.
  • The ancient Egyptians practiced circumcision by creating a dorsal incision in the foreskin.
  • Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.

All 40 example sentences with practiced

Forms of practiced

comparativemore practiced
superlativemost practiced
alternative Commonwealthpractised

Words formed from practiced

Phrases with practiced

Questions about practiced

What does practiced mean?
Practiced means skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice.
What is practiced in Hindi?
Practiced in Hindi is अभ्यस्त (abhyast), जँचा (jãcā). See Practiced meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is practiced?
Practiced is an adjective.
How do you pronounce practiced?
Practiced is pronounced /ˈpɹæktɪst/.

Words near practiced in the dictionary

  1. practice squad
  2. practice squads
  3. practice what one preaches
  4. practice, practice, practice
  5. practiceable
  6. practiced
  7. practiced what one preached
  8. practicedness
  9. practicelike
  10. practicer
  11. practicers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: practiced (page history and authors); practiced (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); practiced (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); practiced (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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