Crossword clues for skillfulness
skillfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]
Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] ``Of skillful judgment.''
--Chaucer.-
Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.
And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
--Amos v. 16.Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. [1913 Webster] -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Skill"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being adept or skillful.
WordNet
n. the state of being cognitively skillful [ant: unskillfulness]
Usage examples of "skillfulness".
He'd climbed aboard the Committee's political bandwagon not because of any belief in what Rob Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just had promised the Mob but because it had offered him the opportunity for personal power, and he'd played the political game with a skillfulness which somehow managed to elude him in the field of naval tactics.