Adept

/əˈdɛpt/ · adjective

Meaning

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

Definitions by Sense

1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
2. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

Example Sentences

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.

adepts in philosophy

Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.

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.

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• more adept
• adepter
• most adept
• adeptest
• adepts

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