
sketchily | sketchily: adv. cursorily, superficially, incompletely, patchily, roughly, perfunctorily, skimpily, vaguely, imperfectly, crudely, hastily, hurriedly: His account of the event was sketchily written.
sketchy | sketchy: adj. cursory, superficial, incomplete, patchy, rough, perfunctory, skimpy, imperfect, crude, hasty, hurried, vague, ill-defined, fuzzy, indistinct, inexact, imprecise, unrefined, unpolished, rough-hewn, unfinished: We received only sketchy reports of what was going on in the capital. This will do as a sketchy outline, but eventually the details will need to be filled in.
skilful | skilful: adj. skilled, accomplished, adept, adroit, dexterous, expert, proficient, masterly, masterful, gifted, apt, able, clever, talented, capable, professional, trained, qualified, experienced, practised: Julio is a skilful enough driver to race tomorrow. I have to admire the skilful way he handles people.
skill | skill: n. 1 talent, ability, aptitude, expertness, expertise, facility, skilfulness, art, artistry, cleverness, adeptness, adroitness, mastery, dexterity, handiness, ingenuity, experience, proficiency, finesse, knack, quickness, deftness, technique: It requires great skill to operate this machine. 2 accomplishment, forte, strength, gift, capability, know-how, faculty: Her skill is in teaching others how to be skilful sales people.
skim | skim: v. 1 Often, skim off. separate, cream, scoop or ladle off, take off, remove: After the water has come to a boil, skim off the scum that has collected on top. 2 Often, skim through or over. scan, flip or thumb or leaf through, skip through, glance at or through, dip into: I only had time to skim through your report, but at a glance it looks good. 3 soar, glide, skate, slide, sail, fly: Along came Calabro on his sailboard, skimming along the tops of the waves.
skin | skin: n. 1 epidermis, derma, integument, hide, pelt, fleece, fell: Her skin reddens in the sun. How many skins are needed to make a coat? 2 coat, film, coating, crust, incrustation, husk, peel, rind, outside, shell, pellicle, veneer, outer layer, lamina, overlay: The frame is first covered with a tough plastic skin to make it waterproof. --v. 3 flay, strip, decorticate, excoriate: I shall skin that boy alive if I catch him! 4 peel, hull, husk, shell: This machine skins the fruit automatically. 5 abrade, scrape, graze, bark: She skinned her knee on the edge of the coffee table.
skin-deep | skin-deep: adj. superficial, shallow, surface, slight, external, unimportant, trivial, unprofound, insubstantial: The impression he makes on people is only skin-deep.
skinny | skinny: adj. thin, underweight, gaunt, bony, scraggy, lank, lanky, gangly, gangling, raw-boned, meagre, spare, emaciated, half-starved, undernourished, spare, pinched, hollow-cheeked, wasted, shrunken: Two skinny children were clinging to their mother''s skirts.
skip | skip: v. 1 leap, cavort, caper, gambol, frisk, prance, jump, hop, romp, bound, dance: Eleanor came skipping down the walk to the house. 2 omit, leave out, pass by, overlook, pass over, avoid, ignore, disregard, steer clear of, cut: In my haste, I skipped over your name. Please skip the reading of the roll today. --n. 3 leap, cavort, caper, gambol, frisk, prance, jump, bound, dance, hop, romp: He had a curious way of walking, giving a little skip before each step. 4 lacuna, gap, omission, avoidance, disregard; miss, Colloq go-by: There was a skip of 32 pages after page 64. If you take my advice, you will give that restaurant a skip.
skipper | skipper: n. captain, master, commander; boss, leader, chief: The skipper gave orders to put him in irons.
skirmish | skirmish: n. 1 fight, encounter, fray, brush, clash, engagement, confrontation, showdown, combat, battle, conflict, struggle, set-to, contest, scrimmage, fracas, tussle, m�l�e or melee, Law affray, Colloq scrap, dust-up, Brit scrum: There was a brief skirmish when the troops met a band of partisans. --v. 2 fight, clash, struggle, battle, tussle, clash: At the edge of the convoy a destroyer skirmished with a submarine.
sky | sky: n. 1 heaven(s), skies, arch or vault of heaven, firmament, (wild) blue (yonder), ether, Archaic or literary welkin, empyrean, azure: The dour, overcast sky gave the bleak moor a chilling sense of foreboding. 2 to the skies. overly, excessively, extravagantly, fulsomely, profusely, inordinately, highly: If I praise him to the skies people will get the idea that I benefit from his success.
