n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

adj. 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"

n. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"

n. someone who fights for a cause

n. an authority qualified to teach apprentices

n. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

n. a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

n. a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen"

n. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"

n. someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution

n. an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters"

n. someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

n. someone who composes music as a profession

n. someone who travels behind or pursues another

n. a public performer (a dancer or singer)

n. an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration; "she is a chess prodigy"

n. a widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity"

n. a property perceived by touch

n. a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries"

n. a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc

n. a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857

n. a well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music"

n. a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"

adj. having the requisite qualities for; "equal to the task"; "the work isn't up to the standard I require"

adj. (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something; "able to swim"; "she was able to program her computer"; "we were at last able to buy a car"; "able to get a grant for the project"

adj. having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation

adj. having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"

adj. tanned and coarsened from being outdoors; "a weather-beaten face"

adj. have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"

adj. meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task; "many qualified applicants for the job"

adj. skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"

adj. quick or skillful or adept in action or thought; "an exceptionally adroit pianist"; "an adroit technician"; "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers"; "an adroit negotiator"

adj. skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; "cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician"; "came up with a clever story"; "an ingenious press agent"; "an ingenious scheme"

adj. marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

adj. having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town"

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

adj. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"

adj. able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution"

adj. exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business

adj. thoroughly acquainted through study or experience; "this girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson; "knowledgeable about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read

adj. skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"

adj. endowed with talent or talents; " a gifted writer"

adj. legally qualified; "a competent witness"

adj. mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker

adj. expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"

adj. used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

adj. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"

adj. "a master plumber"; "a master thief"

adj. excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"

adj. (skilled)

adj. proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"

adj. competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer"