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proficient adjective [ prəˈfɪʃ(ə)nt ]

• competent or skilled in doing or using something.
• "I was proficient at my job"
Similar: skilled, skilful, expert, accomplished, experienced, practised, trained, seasoned, well versed, adept, adroit, deft, dexterous, able, capable, competent, professional, effective, apt, handy, talented, gifted, masterly, consummate, master, good, great, excellent, brilliant, crack, ace, mean, wicked, wizard, crackerjack, badass, compleat, shit-hot,
Opposite: inept, inexpert, incompetent,

proficient noun

• a person who is proficient.
• "he became a proficient in Latin and Greek"
Origin: late 16th century: from Latin proficient- ‘advancing’, from the verb proficere, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do, make’.


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