skilled

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skɪld/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪld

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-

Proto-Germanic *skilją

Old Norse skilbor.

Middle English skill

English skill

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Old English -ed

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz

Old English -od

Middle English -ed

English -ed

English skilled

From skill (noun) + -ed.

Adjective

skilled (comparative more skilled, superlative most skilled)

Having or showing skill; skillful.
- 2008 February 27, Zhi Zhen, “Correcting One's Wrongdoings Changes One's Fate”, in Minghui‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 December 2025:
  In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region.
Requiring special abilities or training.
- 2024 November 4, Terese Eriksen Eldholm, “Norway increases minimum wage rates across key industries”, in Magnus Legal‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 June 2025:
  The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:skilled

Derived terms

Translations

having or showing skill — see also skillful

Arabic: مَاهِر (māhir)
Bengali: ওয়াকেফ (bn) (ōẇakeph)
Bulgarian: вещ (bg) (vešt), опитен (bg) (opiten), изкусен (bg) (izkusen), кадъ́рен (bg) (kadắren)
Catalan: hàbil (ca), destre (ca)\
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: -hodari
Danish: dygtig (da)
Esperanto: lerta
Finnish: taitava (fi), taidokas (fi)
French: habile (fr)
Frisian:
West Frisian: betûft
Galician: destro m, xeitoso m, adoito m
German: geschickt (de), gekonnt (de), gewandt (de)
Hawaiian: noʻeau
Hebrew: מְיֻמָּן (he) m (meyumán)
Hindi: दक्ष (hi) (dakṣ), कुशल (hi) (kuśal), निपुण (hi) (nipuṇ), पारंगत (hi) (pāraṅgat), माहिर (hi) (māhir)
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: sciliúil
Italian: esperto (it)
Japanese: 上手 (ja) (じょうず, jōzu)
Kabuverdianu: jeitozu
Khmer: ជំនាញ (km) (cumniəñ)
Korean: 잘하다 (ko) (jalhada) (to be good at), 능숙하다 (neungsukhada)
Latin: artifex (la), callidus, sollers, perītus
Malay: mahir (ms)
Māori: tautoohito
Mapudungun: trüf
Mari:
Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dreven, erfaren (no), kyndig
Occitan: abil (oc)
Polish: umiejętny (pl) m
Portuguese: hábil (pt), habilidoso (pt), jeitoso
Romanian: priceput (ro)
Russian: квалифици́рованный (ru) (kvalificírovannyj), иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), уме́лый (ru) (umélyj)
Sanskrit: ऋभु (sa) (ṛbhu)
Spanish: hábil (es), diestro (es), habilidoso (es), capi (colloquial), caperuzo (es) (colloquial), habiloso (es)
Swedish: kunnig (sv), skicklig (sv)
Thai: เก่ง (th) (gèng)
Turkish: yetenekli (tr), becerikli (tr), kabiliyetli (tr), hünerli (tr), maarifetli
Uzbek: hunarli (uz)
Vietnamese: lành nghề (vi)

requiring special abilities or training

Bulgarian: квалифициран (bg) (kvalificiran)
German: fachlich ausgebildet, fachlich unterwiesen, fachlich trainiert
Mari:
Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)
Romanian: calificat (ro)
Spanish: cualificado (es), especializado (es), capacitado (es)
Turkish: yetenekli (tr), kabiliyetli (tr)

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Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} bedreven (nl)
German: ^{(please verify)} erfahren (de)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

skilled

simple past and past participle of skill

Anagrams

de-skill, deskill