Accustomed vs Proficient - What's the difference?
accustomed | proficient |
Familiar through use; usual; customary.
* An accustomed action - Shakespeare, Macbeth, V-v
Inured to; adapted to existing conditions.
(obsolete) Frequented by customers
* A well accustomed shop - Smollett
(accustom)
Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
As adjectives the difference between accustomed and proficient
is that accustomed is familiar through use; usual; customary while proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.As a verb accustomed
is (accustom).As a noun proficient is
an expert.accustomed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- accustomed to walking long distances
- accustomed to cold
Verb
(head)proficient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient .