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skilfull

skilfull is the archaic form of skilful.

Meaning of skilful

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

Forms of skilfull

comparativemore skilfull
superlativemost skilfull

Questions about skilfull

What is skilfull the archaic form of?
Skilfull is the archaic form of skilful.

Words near skilfull in the dictionary

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

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