having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
"adept in handicrafts"
"an adept juggler"
"an expert job"
"a good mechanic"
"a practiced marksman"
"a proficient engineer"
"a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"
"the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"
Possessing skill; skilled.
The word comes from Middle English skilful, which combined the noun skill with the suffix -ful. It originally meant possessing or full of skill.