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say it: PRAK-tuhst
practiced is an adjective meaning "having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude". It is pronounced /ˈpɹæktəst/ — PRAK-tuhst. It carries 2 recorded senses.
having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
“adept in handicrafts”
“an adept juggler”
“an expert job”
“a good mechanic”
“a practiced marksman”
“a proficient engineer”
“a lesser-known but no less skillful composer”
“the effect was achieved by skillful retouching”
skillful after much practice
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for practiced come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.