English > proficient: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude. |
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| Example | "a proficient engineer" |
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| Synonyms | adept, expert, good, practiced, skillful, skilful |
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| Broader | skilled | Having or showing or requiring special skill |
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| Spanish | adepto, competente, diestro, ducho, experto, hábil, habilidoso, mañoso |
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| Catalan | destre, enginyós, expert, hàbil, manyós, traçut |
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| Nouns | proficiency | the quality of having great facility and competence |
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| proficiency | skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity |
| Adverbs | proficiently | in a proficient manner |
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