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skillfully

/ˈskɪlfəli/

skillfully adverb: in a skillful manner; with skill.

Adverb

skillfully (comparative more skillfully, superlative most skillfully)

  1. In a skillful manner; with skill.
    • On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.1867, Leigh Burton, American Journal of Dental Science, page 180
    Synonyms:
    handily

skillfully meaning in Hindi

skillfully in Hindi

skillfully, dexterously
चतुराईपूर्वक caturāīpūrvak

Examples of skillfully in a sentence

  • He skillfully took charge of the event, and furthermore, he stayed late after it to clean up.
  • She threw the lasso skillfully around the post.
  • The American people were to be togetherized as skillfully and brilliantly as they are fast being computerized.

All 15 example sentences with skillfully

Synonyms of skillfully

Forms of skillfully

comparativemore skillfully
superlativemost skillfully
alternative formskilfully

Origin of skillfully

From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly.

Words formed from skillfully

Questions about skillfully

What does skillfully mean?
Skillfully means in a skillful manner; with skill.
What is skillfully in Hindi?
Skillfully in Hindi is चतुराईपूर्वक (caturāīpūrvak). See Skillfully meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is skillfully?
Skillfully is an adverb.
How do you pronounce skillfully?
Skillfully is pronounced /ˈskɪlfəli/.

Words near skillfully in the dictionary

  1. skilleting
  2. skillets
  3. skillful
  4. skillfulest
  5. skillfull
  6. skillfully
  7. skillfulness
  8. skillfulnesses
  9. Skillicorn
  10. skilliest
  11. skilligalee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skillfully (page history and authors); चतुराईपूर्वक (Hindi) (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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