adept

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

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[edit] Adjective

adept (comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest)

Positive
adept

Comparative
more adept or adepter

Superlative
most adept or adeptest

  1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

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  • 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.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
adept

Plural
adepts

adept (plural adepts)

  1. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

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  • 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.

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin adeptus (who has achieved)

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[edit] Noun

adept m.

  1. adept

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

[edit] Polish

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  • IPA: /'adɛpt/

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adept m.

  1. trainee
  2. novice

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Singular Plural
Nominative adept adepci
Genitive adepta adeptów
Dative adeptowi adeptom
Accusative adepta adeptów
Instrumental adeptem adeptami
Locative adepcie adeptach
Vocative adepcie adepci