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From Latin proficiens, present participle of proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + facere (“to make, do”); see fact.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/, /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃənt
proficient (comparative more proficient, superlative most proficient)
- Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:
By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient.
skilled
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bikol Central: tatao (bcl)
- Bulgarian: умел (bg) (umel), изкусен (bg) (izkusen), опитен (bg) (opiten)
- Catalan: perit (ca), capaç (ca), versat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: geoefend (nl), competent (nl), bekwaam (nl)
- Esperanto: lerta
- Finnish: taitava (fi); sujuva (fi) (of language)
- French: compétent (fr)
- Galician: competente (gl)
- German: tüchtig (de), fähig (de), kompetent (de), befähigt (de), bewandert (de), erfahren (de), sachkundig (de), geübt (de), geschickt (de)
- Hindi: प्रवीण (hi) (pravīṇ)
- Icelandic: fær (is), snjall (is)
- Italian: competente (it), esperto (it), proficuo (it)
- Japanese: 熟練な (ja) (じゅくれんな, jukuren na), 上手な (ja) (じょうずな, jōzu na)
- Kazakh: жетік (jetık), білікті (bılıktı)
- Manx: aghtal
- Maori: kaiaka, matatau
- Norwegian: flink (no)
- Polish: biegły (pl)
- Portuguese: proficiente (pt), competente (pt), perito (pt)
- Russian: уме́лый (ru) (umélyj), иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), компете́нтный (ru) (kompeténtnyj)
- Spanish: competente (es)
- Swedish: sakkunnig (sv), erfaren (sv)
- Tagalog: dalubhasa
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: becerikli (tr), ehliyetli (tr), kabiliyetli (tr), mahir (tr), mütehassıs (tr), usta (tr), uzman (tr), yeterli (tr)
- Ukrainian: досві́дчений (dosvídčenyj), вмі́лий (vmílyj), компете́нтний (kompeténtnyj)
- Uyghur: پۇختا (puxta)
proficient (plural proficients)
- An expert.
1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202:
The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
- (expert): expert; see also Thesaurus:skilled person
expert
- Bulgarian: специалист (bg) m (specialist)
- Dutch: expert (nl)
- Finnish: taituri (fi)
- German: Fachmann (de) m, Fachfrau (de) f, Meister (de) m, Meisterin (de) f, Experte (de) m, Profi (de) m, Sachkundiger m
- Hindi: प्रवीण (hi) m (pravīṇ)
- Italian: esperto (it) m
- Malayalam: നിപുണൻ (ml) m (nipuṇaṉ)
- Portuguese: perito (pt) m
- Russian: специали́ст (ru) (specialíst), экспе́рт (ru) (ekspért)
- Spanish: experto (es) m, perito (es) m
- Turkish: usta (tr)
- Ukrainian: спеціалі́ст (uk) m (specialíst), е́ксперт (uk) m (ékspert), фахіве́ць (uk) m (faxivécʹ)
- “proficient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “proficient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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