Is Proficient a Good Thing

Proficient typically describes people, and it often is followed by the preposition at. If you are proficient at something, you are very good at it. You are, in fact, so good at doing it that you are unusually efficient when you do it. One can also be proficient in something, such as a language.

Is proficient better than good?

Senior Member. There is a difference: proficient = expert; with an advanced knowledge; skilled, whereas “good” merely says she is better than average. So, proficient is stronger than good.

What's a better word than proficient?

skilled, skilful, expert, accomplished, experienced, practised, trained, seasoned, well versed, adept, adroit, deft, dexterous, able, capable, competent, professional, effective, apt, handy, talented, gifted, masterly, consummate, master. good, great, excellent, brilliant. informal crack, ace, mean, wicked.