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proficient
[pruh-fish-uhnt]
adjective
well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled.
a proficient swimmer.
Synonyms: , , , , ,Antonyms: ,
noun
an expert.
proficient
/ əˈɪʃəԳ /
adjective
having great facility (in an art, occupation, etc); skilled
noun
an archaic word for an expert
Other 51Թ Forms
- proficiently adverb
- proficientness noun
- overproficient adjective
- underproficient adjective
- ˈھԳ noun
- ˈھԳٱ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of proficient1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of proficient1
Example Sentences
Grier: I did an episode of a sitcom in which it was assumed, unbeknownst to me, that I was very proficient playing an upright bass.
But as audiences see in Episode 5, he’s also a capable fighter proficient in firearms and equipped with key survival skills.
Times columnist Gustavo Arellano talks with his dad — a longtime truck driver — about an executive order by President Trump that enforces a requirement that truckers be proficient in English.
Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, managed to survive Wednesday's French debate despite being less proficient in the country's second language.
Göransson absorbed his dad’s passions and mutated them into a personal obsession with Metallica, an electric descendant of the blues, in the process becoming a guitar player proficient in everything from thrash metal to jazz.
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