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say it: skild
skilled is an adjective meaning "having or showing or requiring special skill". It is pronounced /ˈskɪld/ — skild. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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 skilled 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.