adept

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US, adjective) IPA(key): /əˈdɛpt/, /ˈæd.ɛpt/
  • (UK, US, noun) IPA(key): /ˈæd.ɛpt/, /ædˈɛpt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛpt

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 Thesaurus:skillful

Antonyms

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 Thesaurus:skilled person

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛpt

Noun

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

  1. an adept (person)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”)

Noun

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

  1. an adept (person)

References

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.dɛpt/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

adept m pers

  1. trainee
  2. novice

Declension

Further reading

  • adept in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

adept c

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

Declension

Declension of adept 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative adept adepten adepter adepterna
Genitive adepts adeptens adepters adepternas

Synonyms

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