English

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:skillful

Antonyms

• inept

Translations

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:skilled person

Translations

Related terms

• apt
• aptitude

Anagrams

• pated, taped

References

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

Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin adeptus ‎(“who has achieved”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/
• Rhymes: -ɛpt

Noun

adept m

1. adept

Inflection

References

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadɛpt/

Noun

adept m pers

1. trainee
2. novice

Declension

Swedish

Noun

adept c

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

Declension

Synonyms

• lärjunge