proficient
Pronunciation Adjective
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation Adjective
proficient
- Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient.
- French: compétent
- German: tüchtig, fähig, kompetent, befähigt, bewandert, erfahren, sachkundig, geübt, geschickt
- Italian: competente, esperto, proficuo
- Portuguese: proficiente, competente, perito
- Russian: уме́лый
- Spanish: competente
proficient (plural proficients)
- An expert.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 10,
- Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 10,
- (expert) expert; see also Thesaurus:skilled person
- German: Fachmann, Fachfrau, Meister, Meisterin, Experte, Profi, Sachkundiger
- Italian: esperto
- Portuguese: perito
- Spanish: experto, perito
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003