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proficient
Synonyms:

able, accomplished, ace, adept, competent, compleat, complete, consummate, crack, crackerjack, educated, experienced, expert, finished, good, great, master, masterful, masterly, practiced, professed, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso.

Related Words:

apt, capable, clever, conversant, effective, effectual, efficient, gifted, qualified, talented, trained.

Antonyms:

amateur, amateurish, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, jackleg, unprofessional, unseasoned, unskilled, unskillful.

Synonym Study 1 (Merriam-Webster):

Proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, and expert mean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession.

Proficient implies a thorough competence derived from training and practice:
proficient in translating foreign languages.

Adept implies special aptitude as well as proficiency:
adept at doing long division.

Skilled stresses mastery of technique:
a skilled surgeon.

Skillful implies individual dexterity in execution or performance:
skillful drivers.

Expert implies extraordinary proficiency and often connotes knowledge as well as technical skill:
expert in the evaluation of wines.

Origin:

1580–90; < Latin prōficient- (stem of prōficiēns) present participle of prōficere to advance, make progress, equivalent to prō- pro-1 + -ficere, combining form of facere to make, do1. See -ent, efficient. [British:] C16: from Latin prōficere to make progress, from pro- 1 + facere to make. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use of proficient: circa 1590. History and Etymology for proficient: Latin proficient-, proficiens, present participle of proficere to go forward, accomplish, from pro- forward + facere to make — more at pro-, do. —Merriam-Webster.

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Added: 20 July 2020 {6:45 PM}
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