Antonyms for skillful
ˈskɪl fəlskill·ful

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1. adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilfuladjective

   having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

   "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

   Antonyms:
   imprecise, unskilled

   Synonyms:
   dear, good, right, in effect(p), unspoiled, sound, serious, effective, upright, salutary, in force(p), skilful, practiced, dependable, estimable, technical, expert, secure, beneficial, proficient, full, honest, respectable, undecomposed, unspoilt, nice, ripe, just, safe, adept, honorable, well(p), near, practised

2. nice, skillfuladjective

   done with delicacy and skill

   "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"

   Antonyms:
   unskilled, imprecise

   Synonyms:
   dainty, courteous, skilful, overnice, proficient, good, gracious, squeamish, practiced, adept, nice, prissy, expert, decent

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1. skillfuladjective

   Antonyms:
   unskillful, empirical, maladroit

   Synonyms:
   skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly, proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished

How to use skillful in a sentence?

1. Albert Bourla:

   Many variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade -- in a skillful way -- the immune protection that we're giving.

2. Bill Clinton:

   When I became Bill Clinton ambassador for the Bill Clinton, Lavrov, Foreign Minister had been there 10 years already. So he was very skillful, he knew how to maneuver in Security Council. He was very formidable. And so we have Russia right now, very knowledgeable about Bill Clinton operations so that's an advantage that they have.

3. Karl Kleinpaste:

   Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.

4. Author Unknown:

   A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

5. Harry S Truman:

   Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

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