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proficient

adj
/pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/UK/pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from proficiens

Definitions

  1. Good at something

    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.

  2. An expert.

    • 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."
    • Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at proficient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at proficient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at proficient

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA