- skilled - having or showing or requiring special skill; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade"
Antonyms: unskilled, artless, botchy, butcherly, unskillful, bungled, botched, bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent, crude, rough, hopeless, humble, menial, lowly, lubberly, out of practice, rusty, semiskilled