Developing vs Proficient - What's the difference?
developing | proficient |
Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.
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 developing and proficient
is that developing is of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized while proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.As a verb developing
is .As a noun proficient is
an expert.developing
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Adjective
(head)Verb
(head)proficient
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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 .