knowing the score

able accomplished adept adequate competent efficient experienced gifted good intelligent proficient qualified skillful suited talented

adapted apt au fait clever dynamite fireball fitted green thumb has what it takes having know-how having the goods having the right stuff knowing the ropes like a one-man band like a pistol masterly old hand old-timer on the ball proper there up up to it up to snuff up to speed veteran

clumsy green ignorant inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inefficient inept inexperienced powerless stupid unable unintelligent unqualified unskilled unsuitable untalented useless weak

impotent unskillful

accomplished capable competent mature professional qualified seasoned skillful sophisticated trained veteran wise

accustomed cultivated dynamite instructed matured practiced rounded sport tested tried versed vet

adept been around been there broken in expert familiar having something on the ball in the know knowing one's stuff old old hand practical pro the right stuff well-versed worldly worldly-wise

amateur green ignorant incapable incompetent inept inexperienced unable unskilled unskillful untalented untrained

immature unfamiliar unknowledgeable unseasoned unsophisticated