adeptness (noun)

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• adeptness — 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

• adeptness — noun skillful performance or ability without difficulty his quick adeptness was a product of good design he was famous for his facility as an archer • Syn: ↑adroitness, ↑deftness, ↑facility, ↑quickness • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• adeptness — noun see adept II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adeptness — noun The quality of being adept …   Wiktionary

• adeptness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Natural or acquired facility in a specific activity: ability, art, command, craft, expertise, expertness, knack, mastery, proficiency, skill, technique. Informal: know how. See ABILITY, KNOWLEDGE …   English dictionary for students

• 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 — 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 — ► 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

• adeptly — 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

• adroitness — noun skillful performance or ability without difficulty (Freq. 1) his quick adeptness was a product of good design he was famous for his facility as an archer • Syn: ↑adeptness, ↑deftness, ↑facility, ↑quickness …   Useful english dictionary