proficient
How many syllables in proficient?
There are 3 syllables in the word proficient.How to pronounce proficient:
Synonyms for proficient:
able
accomplished
ace
adept
apt
capable
clever
competent
complete
consummate
conversant
crack
crackerjack
educated
efficient
employable
experienced
expert
gifted
good
great
master
masterful
masterly
practiced
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Antonyms for proficient:
abysmal
accident-prone
all fingers and thumbs
all thumbs
amateur
amateurish
apathetic
appalling
apprentice
artless
atrocious
average
awful
awkward
bad
badly performing
beginning
below par
below standard
benighted
bland
blundering
blunderous
blunt
boring
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- envisage
- description
- criticize
- abundant
- thirty-two
- immensely
- harier
- caballo
- playfellow
- defiant
- tomorrow's
- relative
- intricate
- gamaliel
- empathy
- diurnal
- creepily
- residence
- domestic
- naivety
- glorious
- bestowment
- tranquilly
- guarantor
- verbatim
- unhealthy
- oceanic
- alias
- vestibule
- Galatia
- antonym
- unhampered
- obvious
- Halloween
- genoa
- forty-five
- appointment
- wretchedly
- echelon
- at death's door
- rat-a-tat
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