1. practised Skilful signifies possessing and using readily practical knowledge and ability, having alert and well-trained faculties with reference to a given work. One is adept in that for which he has a nat Synonyms: skilful, accomplished, apt, dexterous, happy, proficient, adept, clever, expert, ingenious, skilled, adroit, deft, handy, practised, trained Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, inexpert, shiftless, unskilled, untrained, bungling, helpless, maladroit, unhandy, untaught