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Definition: Skillfully |
SkillfullyAdverb1. With skill; "fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skillfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references) |
Synonym: SkillfullySynonym: skilfully (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Skill | Adverb: skillfully; Adjective: well; artistically; with skill, with consummate skill; secundum artem, suo Marte; to the best of one's abilities; (exertion). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Skillfully |
| English words defined with "skillfully": Cassican, control ♦ expert ♦ hopeless ♦ Impaste ♦ keep in line ♦ manipulate, masterfully, Masterliness ♦ play ♦ right-hander ♦ skilfully ♦ tumble ♦ well-made. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "skillfully": profile flying. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "skillfully": Concinnity. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've called several times the past few weeks and you've skillfully avoided every call. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The health worker skillfully administers a local anaesthetic which will ensure ... cataract operation is painless. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Willard.. |  | Underway after her smokestacks were raised and other early modifications completed, circa the later 1920s. Note the similarity between this photograph and that seen in Photo # NH 97703, which indicates that this one may be a skillfully retouched version of the latter. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Conversion. Toy factory. Skillfully operating this massive press, a worker stamps out part of a filter box essential to the armed forces. Before conversion of this machine, metal toys were stamped out. The changeover consisted chiefly of new dies. Keyston. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). If you didn't know better, you might think Mrs. Smuda spent the day comfortably darning socks for the family. Less than an hour before these pictures were made, this fifty-five-year-old mother and grandmother was skillfully tape. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. |
| It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Skillfully combining several approaches, both old and new, may at last make it possible to outmaneuver the persistent and deadly parasites. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | The highly-touted PC-12 aircraft is an excellent product, in which idea, concept, engineering and fabrication are skillfully combined. (references) |
Panama | A long-time member of the PRD, Perez Balladares worked skillfully during the campaign to rehabilitate the PRD's image, emphasizing the party's populist Torrijos roots rather than its association with Noriega. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Skillfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Skillfully" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "skillfully": do skillfully. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "skillfully": skillfully-wrought. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "skillfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | باتقان (nicely, perfectly, skilfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 熟练地 (skilfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | savante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geschickt (able, ably, adept, adroit, agile, agilely, capably, clever, cleverly, competently, cunningly, deft, deftly, dexterous, expert, expertly, glibly, handy, ingenious, neatly, nimble, proficient, shrewd, shrewdly, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιδεξίωσ (ably, aptly, handily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyakorlottan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | abilmente (ably, skilfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 能く (being skilled in, nicely, properly, thoroughly, well), 能 (being skilled in, function, gift, nicely, Noh play, properly, talent, thoroughly, well), 手際良く (cleverly, efficiently), 旨く (aptly, cleverly, deliciously, well), 優に (easily, sufficiently, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うまく (aptly, cleverly, deliciously, well), ゆうに (easily, sufficiently, well), よく (avarice, bath, being skilled in, craving, desire, greed, nicely, properly, skilled in, thoroughly, wants, well), てぎわよく (cleverly, efficiently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 능숙하게 (skilfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illfullyskay meşteşugit (artistically, masterly, skilful, skilfully, skillful), mãiestreţ (skilfully), abil (adroit, apt, artful, artistic, artistical, astute, clean, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, natty, qualified, ready, resourceful, sharp, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile). (various references) умело (ably, capably, skilfully). (various references) vešto (ably, craftily, knowingly, masterly). (various references) hábilmente (ably, cleverly, skilfully). (various references) ustaca (adroitly, masterful, masterly, slick). (various references) уміло (ably, capably, skilfully), майстерно (artistically, masterfully, masterly, nattily, skilfully, workmanlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | callide, fabre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "skillfully": unskillfully. (additional references) | |
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"Skillfully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Killcully, skilfull, skillfull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skillfully" (pronounced ski"lfulē) |
| 6 | -i" l f u l ē | wilfully, willfully. |
| 4 | -f u l ē | anencephaly, artfully, blissfully, carefully, cheerfully, delightfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, fitfully, forcefully, frightfully, gainfully, gleefully, gracefully, gratefully, helpfully, hopefully, joyfully, lawfully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, peacefully, pitifully, playfully, purposefully, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ruefully, successfully, tactfully, tastefully, tearfully, thankfully, thoughtfully, truthfully, unlawfully, unsuccessfully, usefully, wishfully, wistfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-l-l-l-l-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: skillful. | |
-3 letters: skilful, sulkily. | |
-5 letters: fills, filly, fluky, fulls, fully, fusil, kills, lulls, silky, silly, skill, skull, slily, sulky, sully, yills. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-l-l-l-l-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unskillfully. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 69 6C 6C 66 75 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- .. .-.. .-.. ..-. ..- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k i l l f u l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0069 006C 006C 0066 0075 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53777578787287787891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, 아라비아, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, 乌克兰, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, 영국, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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