Meaning & use
draftsmanship
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Meanings
noununcountable
Skill in making accurate technical drawings or plans.
Grammar: Uncountable: excellent draftsmanship.
Patterns
- excellent draftsmanship
The engineer's draftsmanship made the plans easy to follow.
Her precise draftsmanship won her a place at the architecture firm.
Poor draftsmanship caused errors in the blueprint.
noununcountableformal
Skill in drawing, especially in making clear, confident lines in art.
Grammar: Often used when praising artists.
Patterns
- fine draftsmanship
The sketch showed remarkable draftsmanship for a ten-year-old.
Critics admired the draftsmanship in his portraits.
Common combinations
- excellent draftsmanship
- The design shows excellent draftsmanship.
- technical draftsmanship
- Technical draftsmanship matters in construction.
- precise draftsmanship
- Precise draftsmanship saved hours.
- sloppy draftsmanship
- Sloppy draftsmanship delayed the project.
- display draftsmanship
- The artist displays real draftsmanship.
Synonyms and how they differ
- drawing skill
- Plainer and without the technical-plan sense.
- craftsmanship
- Skill in making things, wider than drawing.
- artistry
- Creative excellence, not necessarily precision.
- penmanship
- Quality of handwriting.
Word family
Commonly confused: draftsmanship or craftsmanship?
draftsmanship vs craftsmanship
Craftsmanship covers skill in making things; draftsmanship concerns drawing.
Practice
Draftsmanship is most closely connected with ___.
Choose one answer.
It means skill in drawing or drafting. The others are different skills.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “draftsmanship”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.