adept
adept
Definition
adept (ə dept′; also, and for n. always ad′ept′)
adjective
highly skilled; expert
Etymology: L adeptus, pp. of adipisci, to arrive at < ad-, to + apisci, to pursue, attain: used in ML of alchemists claiming to have arrived at the philosopher's stone
noun
ad′·ept′ a person who is highly skilled in some field of knowledge or work; expert
adept′·ly adverb
adept′·ness noun
adept
Synonyms
adept
Usage Examples
Preposition: in
- art: This creature, adept in the art of disguise, will make your life a living nightmare.
Preposition: at
- problem: Candidates should also be adept at problem solving with excellent communication skills.
- comedy: She was also adept at comedy and appeared in episodes of Steptoe And Son and Up Pompeii.
- art: It truly appears that women are more adept at the quiet art of one-to-one dialog.
Modifying Another Word
- technically: For the technically adept this would be automatically disregarded.
- technologically: If you are technologically adept, the BBC provide a free tool that may be installed on a website to aid access.
- equally: Jonathan Schofield is a striker from Bury St Edmunds who is equally adept on the left hand side.
- socially: Bowie, Belinda Carlisle and Melanie C. Because they're all decent human beings and socially adept.
- remarkably: Introduction Children are remarkably adept at learning new verbal information.
- surprisingly: He has proved surprisingly adept at bringing his diverse nation together and mobilizing against terrorism.
Used with adjective complement
- prove: Yeltsin has proved adept at controlling the first two.
- become: They have also become adept at playing the game.
- seem: The ecology movement seems particularly adept in its innovative approach to venues.
- get: The pilots were getting more adept I think, or thought better of making a report.
Modifies a noun
- player: Guitarist Paul Davies is a highly adept player, letting loose some superb rock guitar whilst Gavin Griffiths provides powerful drumming throughout.
- dle: The ADEPT DLE takes advantage of such technologies in support of its basic assumption concerning the conceptual organization of science learning materials.
- soloist: Guitarist Marco Tulio is a solid accompanist and an adept soloist.
- communicator: Electrolux, the world's largest consumer appliance company, is one of the most adept communicators.
- swimmer: They usually spend little time underwater as they are not very adept swimmers.
- handling: Free Gift with Purchase is an engaging afternoon read, both for the subject matter and the adept handling by the author.
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