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skillful

Today it means: Possessing skill; skilled. Full definition →

Middle English skilful

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Middle English · derived fromskilful
English todayskillful

From Middle English skilful, skylfull, scelvol, equivalent to skill + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.