practised
/ˈpraktɪst
/(US practiced)
adjective
Expert, typically as the result of much experience: admiring the dress with a practised eye the waiter was practised at disrupting moments of intimacy...
- I continue to believe that foxes must be controlled and that this is best served by the practiced and experienced gamekeeper and farmer.
- Then, with the practiced thoroughness of an experienced computer hacker, she created and deployed a stealth-virus program.
- The thief was as thin as a willow branch and cut open the bulging purses with the ease and dexterity of a practiced and experienced thief.
Synonyms
expert, experienced, seasoned, skilled, skilful, accomplished, proficient, talented, able, capable, adept, adroit, consummate, master, masterly, veteran;
trained, qualified, well trained, well versed
informal crack, ace, mean, demon, wizard
North American informal crackerjack
archaic or humorous compleat
- philoprogenitiveness
- philorthodox
- philos.
- philo-Semite
- philo-Semitic
- philo-Semitism
- philosoph
- philosophaster
- philosophastering
- philosophastry
- philosophate
- philosophating
- philosophe
- philosopheme
- philosopher
- philosopheress
- philosopher kings
- philosophers' egg
- philosopher's egg
- philosopher's game
- philosophership
- philosopher's philosopher
- philosopher's stone
- philosophers' tree
- philosophers' wool