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Doer vs Proficient - What's the difference?

doer | proficient |

As adjectives the difference between doer and proficient

is that doer is servile while proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.

As nouns the difference between doer and proficient

is that doer is serf while proficient is an expert.

doer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 295:
  • Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].
  • * 2008 , Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian , 25 Mar 2008:
  • In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * be-er

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----

    proficient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
  • He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
  • 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 .

    Synonyms

    * (good at) skilled, fluent, practiced

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expert.
  • Synonyms

    * (expert) expert; see also