Meanings
comparative more skillfully · superlative most skillfully · alternative skilfully
- In a skillful manner; with skill.
On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.
1867, Leigh Burton, American Journal of Dental Science, page 180Synonyms: handily
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a skillful manner; with skill.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwith skill
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishskilfully
- Englishskillfully
From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἐπισταμένως
- ἐπισταμένως (epistaménōs)in a skillful manner
Catalan hàbilment
- hàbilmentin a skillful manner
Esperanto lerte
- lertein a skillful manner
German geschickt
- geschicktin a skillful manner
Hungarian ügyesen
- ügyesenin a skillful manner
Korean 익히
- 익히 (ikhi)in a skillful manner
Swedish skickligt
- skickligtin a skillful manner
Cite this entry
skillfully. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skillfully
“skillfully.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skillfully. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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