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adept (noun)

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  • adept — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ very skilled or proficient. ► NOUN ▪ a person who is adept at something. DERIVATIVES adeptly adverb adeptness noun. ORIGIN from Latin adipisci obtain, attain …   English terms dictionary

  • adept — adepts ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ, usu ADJ at ing/n (The adjective is pronounced [[t]æde̱pt[/t]]. The noun is pronounced [[t]æ̱dept[/t]].) Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully. He s usually very adept at keeping his private life… …   English dictionary

  • adept — I UK [əˈdept] / US adjective skilful at doing something a technically adept musician adept at: The flatfish is remarkably adept at hiding itself on the sea bed. Derived word: adeptly adverb II UK [ˈædept] / US noun [countable] Word forms adept :… …   English dictionary

  • adept — a|dept1 [ ə dept ] adjective skillful at doing something: a technically adept musician adept at: The flatfish is remarkably adept at hiding itself on the ocean floor. ╾ a|dept|ly adverb adept a|dept 2 [ ædept ] noun count someone who is very… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • adept — {{11}}adept (adj.) 1690s, completely skilled from L. adeptus having reached, attained, pp. of adipisci to come up with, arrive at, figuratively to attain to, acquire, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + apisci grasp, attain, related to aptus fitted… …   Etymology dictionary

  • adept — I. noun Etymology: New Latin adeptus alchemist who has attained the knowledge of how to change base metals into gold, from Latin, past participle of adipisci to attain, from ad + apisci to reach more at apt Date: 1709 a highly skilled or well… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • adept — adjective adɛpt, ə dɛpt very skilled or proficient. noun adɛpt a person who is adept at something. Derivatives adeptly adverb adeptness noun Origin C17: from L. adept , adipisci obtain, attain …   English new terms dictionary

  • adept — 1. adjective /əˈdɛpt,ˈæd.ɛpt,ˈæd.ɛpt,ædˈɛpt/ Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. 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… …   Wiktionary

  • adept — adjective /əˈdɛpt / (say uh dept) 1. highly skilled; proficient; expert. –noun /ˈædɛpt / (say adept) 2. someone who has attained proficiency; one fully skilled in anything. {Latin adeptus, past participle, having attained} –adeptly, adverb… …  

  • adept — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. skillful, dexterous, apt; practiced, expert, proficient. n. expert, master. See skill. Ant., clumsy; faker. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. skilled, skillful, proficient, capable; see able 1 , 2 . III… …   English dictionary for students

  • adept — 1 adjective good at doing something that needs care and skill (+at/in): Melissa soon became adept at predicting his moods. adeptly adverb 2 noun (C) someone who is good at doing something …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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