ADEPT DEFINITIONS - 13 definitions found
adept adj 1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful] n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] adept pated taped Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) 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-trained individual ; expert <an adept at chess> II. adjective Date: circa 1691 thoroughly proficient ; expert <adept at fixing cars> Synonyms: see proficient • adeptly adverb • adeptness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary adept Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully. He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, usu ADJ at -ing/n • adeptly Mrs Marcos' lawyer adeptly exploited the prosecution's weakness. ADV: ADV with v English Explanatory Dictionary adept ˈædept adj. & n. --adj. (foll. by at, in) thoroughly proficient. --n. a skilled performer; an expert. øøadeptly adv. adeptness n. [L adeptus past part. of adipisci attain] Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) ADEPT Administrative Data Entry for Processing Transmission (mil., USA) Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Adept \A*dept"\, n. [L. adeptus obtained (sc. artem), ?he who has obtained an art, p. p. of adipsci to arrive ?at, to obtain; ad + apisci to pursue. See Apt, and cf. Adapt.] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Adept \A*dept"\, a. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Beaus adept in everything profound. --Cowper. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms adept I. n. Master, proficient, expert, genius, veteran, old hand, practised hand, good hand, master hand, capital hand, nice hand, doctor, dab, dabster. II. a. Skilled, versed, experienced, practised, proficient, good, at home, dab, au fait. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) adept ˈædept adj. 1 versed, proficient, skilled, well-skilled, expert, accomplished, skilful or US skillful, adroit, dexterous or dextrous, able, masterful, masterly, polished: She is an adept pianist, and her husband is adept at carpentry. --n. 2 expert, master, specialist, authority , Colloq dab hand, old hand: He is an adept at anything that one does with one's hands. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 118 Moby Thesaurus words for "adept": Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, accomplished, adept in, adroit, anthroposophist, apt, artisan, artist, artistic, at home in, attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, cabalist, clean, clever, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, cunning, cute, dabster, daedal, dead shot, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, elder statesman, esoteric, excellent, experienced hand, expert, expert at, expert consultant, fancy, good, good at, goodish, graceful, graduate, handy, handy at, handy man, ingenious, journeyman, magisterial, mahatma, marksman, master, master of, masterful, masterly, mystagogue, mystic, neat, no mean, no slouch, old hand, past master, polished, politic, politician, pro, professional, professor, proficient, proficient in, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, savant, shark, sharp, skilled, skilled in, skillful, slick, some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, strong in, stylish, supernaturalist, tactful, technical adviser, technician, the compleat, the complete, theosophist, transcendentalist, up on, versed, versed in, virtuoso, well up on, well-done, well-versed, whiz, wizard, workmanlike, yogi, yogin, yogist |
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