adept

From French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).

• (UK, US, adjective) IPA^(key): /əˈdɛpt/, /ˈæd.ɛpt/
• (UK, US, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ɛpt/, /ædˈɛpt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛpt

adept (comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest)

1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
   • 1837-1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

     Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.

• See also Thesaurus:skillful

• inept

adept (plural adepts)

1. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

   adepts in philosophy

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:

     When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.

   • 1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure:

     Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.

• See also Thesaurus:skilled person

• apt
• aptitude

• adept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• pated, taped

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”)

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/
• Rhymes: -ɛpt

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adepter, definite plural adeptene)

1. an adept (person)

• “adept” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “adept” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”)

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adeptar, definite plural adeptane)

1. an adept (person)

• “adept” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɛpt/

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adept m pers

1. trainee
2. novice

• adept in Polish dictionaries at PWN

adept c

1. a pupil, a student, an apprentice, a disciple

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