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skilful

/ˈskɪlfəl/

skilful adjective: commonwealth and Irish form standard spelling of skillful.

Adjective

skilful (comparative more skilful, superlative most skilful)

  1. Commonwealth and Irish form standard spelling of skillful
    • More than once have I spoken to willing listeners because of some one who had come under skilful kindly treatment in the hospital at Taiwan-fu.1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 82

skilful meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit

skilful in Bengali

skilful, valorous, brave
বাহাদুর bahadur

skilful in Malayalam

വിദഗ്ദ്ധമായ, കുശലമായ, ദക്ഷമായ

skilful in Kannada

ಜಾಣ್ಮೆಯುಳ್ಳ, ಕುಶಲತೆಯುಳ್ಳ, ಪರಿಣತ, ನಿಪುಣ

skilful in Sanskrit

skilful, artistic
स्वपस् svápas

Forms of skilful

comparativemore skilful
superlativemost skilful

Words formed from skilful

Words that rhyme with skilful

Questions about skilful

What does skilful mean?
Skilful means commonwealth and Irish form standard spelling of skillful.
What is skilful in Bengali?
Skilful in Bengali is বাহাদুর (bahadur). See Skilful meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is skilful?
Skilful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce skilful?
Skilful is pronounced /ˈskɪlfəl/.

Words near skilful in the dictionary

  1. skilandis
  2. Skiles
  3. skiless
  4. skilfish
  5. skilfishes
  6. skilful
  7. skilfulest
  8. skilfull
  9. skilfully
  10. skilfulness
  11. skilift

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skilful (page history and authors); বাহাদুর (Bengali) (page history and authors); skilful (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); skilful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्वपस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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