Proficient vs. Prolific — What's the Difference?

Competent or skilled in doing or using something

Producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile

A person who is proficient

Producing or characterized by abundant works or results

Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning.

Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.

A person who exhibits such competence; an expert.

Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance

Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.

(botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.

An expert.

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; - applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; - usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.

Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,

Proliferous.

Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;

Intellectually productive;

Bearing in abundance especially offspring;