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skill'd

skill'd is the archaic form of skilled.

Meaning of skilled

Adjective

skilled (comparative more skilled, superlative most skilled)

  1. Having or showing skill; skillful.
    • In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region.2008 February 27, Zhi Zhen, “Correcting One's Wrongdoings Changes One's Fate”, in Minghui
  2. Requiring special abilities or training.
    • The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.2024 November 4, Terese Eriksen Eldholm, “Norway increases minimum wage rates across key industries”, in Magnus Legal, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2025

Forms of skill'd

comparativemore skill'd
superlativemost skill'd

Origin of skill'd

From skill + -'d.

Questions about skill'd

What is skill'd the archaic form of?
Skill'd is the archaic form of skilled.

Words near skill'd in the dictionary

  1. skill tester
  2. skill testers
  3. skill tree
  4. skill trees
  5. skill up
  6. skill'd
  7. skill-less
  8. skill-lessness
  9. skill-stop
  10. skilla
  11. skillage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skill'd (page history and authors); skilled (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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