Adept

Definitions: Adept

Adept

Adjective

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".

Noun

1. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adept" was first used: 1663. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ADEPT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Adept

Proficient

Noun: proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster, crackerjack; connoisseur; (scholar); master, master hand; prima donna, first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma.

Crosswords: Adept

Dutch (acolyte, adept, adherent, supporter), German (acolyte, adept, adherent, disciple, initiate), Romanian (adherent, advocate, backer, champion, dependant, dependent, devotee, disciple, follower, hanger-on, initiate, partisan, proselyte, sectary, supporter, sympathizer, upholder, votarist, votary, zealot), Swedish (novice, pupil).

You're surprisingly adept at keeping your curiosity in check. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Adept Technology, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion to the Adept Realizer (Truth for Real Series) (reference)

• Dagger Magic: A Novel of the Adept (reference)

• The Apprentice Adept: Split Infinity, Blue Adept, Juxtaposition (reference)

• The Inadequate Adept (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Adept Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Lactose Adept (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Two lies in succession, one upon another, without hesitation, quickly, as if she were an adept in it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Most young Kuwaitis have access to the Internet and are very adept at finding information through computers. (references)

As adept as Techint is when operating in a fairly opaque environment, they are also quite successful internationally. (references)

Soviets became particularly adept at repairing and adjusting their own automobiles to keep them running in an economy where parts and resources were limited. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

The Government of Brazil has proven itself adept at dealing with such challenges and delays have not proven onerous. (references)

Uruguay

The Uruguayan labor force of some 1.2 million is well-educated and adept in the application of modern industrial techniques. (references)

South Africa

Local companies are adept both in adapting overseas goods for the African market and in marketing these goods throughout the region. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

These banks have experience in the Vietnamese market and are adept at evaluating the risk that comes with providing trade-financing facilities in this market. (references)

Travel

Japan

Generally speaking, Japanese are weaker at hearing and speaking English, and more adept at reading and writing. (references)

Netherlands

The Dutch are usually adept at handling business calls in English, but the American executive must be prepared to expect some language problems. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

They note that those who hire gunmen have become more adept at hiding their participation and increasingly target labor leaders with significant experience in organizing and leading land appropriations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "adept": adept at ♦ adept at smth. ♦ adept in photography. Additional references.

Ending with "adept": computer-adept.

Afrikaan

adep (acolyte, adherent), ervare (accomplished, experienced, expert). (various references)

Albanian

kompetent (able, adequate, competent, proficient, qualified), i aftë (able, capable, clever, competent, efficient, fit, proficient, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful), ekspert (Ace, assessor, experienced, expert, professional, proficient, pundit, skilful, skillful, troubleshooter, valuer, wizard). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماهر (adroit, astute, clever, consummate, deft, ingenious, nimble, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, sound, subtle), ‏الماهر (skilled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умел (able, adroit, dextrous, perfect, practised, scientific, subtle, tactical), специалист (authority, dab, dabster, fancier, pro, professional, proficient, shark, specialist), вещ (canny, discriminating, expert, object, proficient, scientific, skilful, skilled, sophisticated, thing), опитен (capable, consummate, empiric, empirical, experienced, experimental, expert, good, grey, laboratory, old, old hand, perfect, pilot, practised, proficient, ripe, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, thorough-paced, versed, veteran, whizbang), експерт (consultant, expert, judge, master, proficient, sharp), алхимик (alchemist), познавач (cognoscente, connoisseur, expert, fancier, judge, proficient, sharp). (various references)

Chinese 

娴熟 (Adroit). (various references)

Czech

znalec (cognoscente, connoisseur, expert, judge, master), znalý (cognizant, knowing, understanding), zbìhlý (knowledgeable, proficient, versed). (various references)

Dutch

beoefenaar (acolyte, adherent, practitioner, supporter), adept (acolyte, adherent, supporter), aanhanger (acolyte, adherent, member, supporter). (various references)

Esperanto

adepto (supporter). (various references)

Faeroese

viðhaldsfólk (acolyte, adherent), meistari (maestro, master). (various references)

Farsi 

ماهر (Adroit, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Great, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Natty, Pert, Proficient, Skillful, Slick, Understanding, Workmanlike), مردزبردست , زبردست (Adroit, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Industrious, Proficient), استاد (Master, Professor). (various references)

Finnish

mestari (chairman, champion, expert, finisher, gaffer, maestro, maker, master, workman). (various references)

French

adepte (adherent), maestro, maître, expert (adjuster, adjustor), experimenté. (various references)

Frisian

oanhinger (acolyte, adherent, member, supporter). (various references)

German

Meister (boss, Buster, chairman, champion, chief, finisher, foreman, gaffer, Lord, Mac, maestro, maker, master, masters, showman, workman), Eingeweihter (acolyte, adherent, hepcat, insider). (various references)

Greek 

έμπειροσ (experienced, practised, skilled, versed), πεπειραμένοσ (experienced), ειδήμων (conoisseur). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיומן (dexterous, nimble, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful), מומח�" (dab, expert, master, past master, specialist), מסו�'ל (able, apt, capable, qualified, suited), בקי (conversant, erudite, expert, past master, proficient, skilled, versed). (various references)

Hungarian

szakértője vminek, szakértő (authority, cognoscente, cunning, dab, expert, fancier, judge, judicious, professional), műértő (connoisseur, virtuosi, virtuoso), alchimista adeptus, ügyes (able, adroit, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, habile, handy, ingenious, masterly, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, slick, to know how many beans make five, versatile). (various references)

Icelandic

stuðningsmaður (acolyte, adherent). (various references)

Indonesian

mahir (accomplished), cekatan (adroit, deft, handy, nimble), campin (clever, handy, skillful), cakap (competent). (various references)

Italian

esperto (ably, accomplished, adroit, clever, connoisseur, experienced, expert, Judge, oldster, practiced, practised, professional, pundit, skiful, skilful, skilled, skillful, trained), abile (able, adroit, artful, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, facile, fit, handy, knowing, masterful, masterly, proficient, skilful, skillful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

流石 (as one would expect, clever, expectations, good), アデノシン三燐酸 (10^-18, adenosine triphosphate, Atonie, atopic, ATP, atto-, goodbye, predisposition toward allergies). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さすが (as one would expect, clever, expectations, good), アデプト . (various references)

Korean 

숙� �되�" (skilled, skillful). (various references)

Manx

jesh-laueagh (adroit, ambidexterous, ambidextrous, deft, dexterous, handy, slick), jesh (becoming, elegant, fancy, felicitous, groomed, neat, ready, righthand, rightwing, seemly, smart, starboard;nice, suitable, tidy, trim). (various references)

Papiamen

maestro (maestro, master). (various references)

Pig Latin

adeptay

Polish

doświadczony. (various references)

Portuguese

perito (Ace, authority, competent, connoisseur, dab, deft, experienced, expert, expert opinion, hakim, judge, land surveyor, master, nailer, proficient, referee, sciential, scientific, skilled, specialist, surveyor, versed), versado (experienced, expert, learner, proficiently, read, versed), experiente (experienced, expert, savvy, worldly). (various references)

Romanian

alchimist (alchemist), specialist (authority on, expert, fancier, judge, keyman, oner at, practitioner, professional man, specialist), pãrtaş (accomplice, acolyte, limb, retainer), iniţiat (initiate, initiated, insider), expert (Ace, authority, connoisseur, dab, dabster, Don, expert, proficient, specialist), doctor (d., doctor, leech, master, physician, pill, pillbox, surgeon). (various references)

Russian 

сведущий (conversant, experienced, versed, well-versed), способный (able, able to, apt, brainy, capable, clever, gifted), ловкий (adroit, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodgy, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, light-handed, natty, neat, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tactical, tricky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vičan (accomplished, clever, experienced, fit, knacky, proficient, skilled, skillful), vešt (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, clever, cunning, daedal, deft, dexterous, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, proficient, sciential, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, tall). (various references)

Spanish

adepto (addict, adherent), partidario (acolyte, addict, adherent, advocate, backer, believer, devotee, follower, guerrilla, hard liner, member, partisan, retainer, sharecropper, supporter, supremacist, sympathizer, well wisher). (various references)

Swedish

skicklig (able, ably, accomplished, adroit, be cunning, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, expert, fine, handsome, ingenious, knacky, knowing, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful). (various references)

Turkish

uzman (authority, connoisseur, dab, dabster, Don, expert, fiend, judge, oracle, professional, proficient, regular, specialist, technician), usta (adroit, artist, connoisseur, constructor, craftsman, dab, dabster, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, facile, hand, ingenious, intelligent, journeyman, master, old hand, proficient, shark, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtile, versed, whizz, wise, workman, Wright), mahir, ehil (cognoscente, competent, connoisseur), becerikli (adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise), üstâd (expert, maestro, master, the master). (various references)

Ukranian 

тямущий (alert, capable, comprehensive, cute, dexterous, docile, intelligenced, smart, well-seen, wise), обізнаний (acquainted, aware, cognizant, conversant, expert, informed, well informed), знавець (cognoscenti, connoisseur, dabster, expert, proficient, sharp, whale), експерт (assessor, examiner, expert, proficient), алхімік (alchemist, hermetic, philosopher), адепт, досвідчений (accomplished, experienced, expert, old, perite, proficient, salted, skilled, sophisticate, sophisticated, versed, veteran). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh thông (sciential), thạo (death, salted), nh� giả kim lão luyện, người tinh thông, người thông thạo, người giỏi, lão luyện (experienced), giỏi (consummate, conversant, dab, death, famously, nut, versed, well-up). (various references)

Welsh

un cyfarwydd, campwr (champion). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adept": adepter, adeptest, adeptly, adeptness, adeptnesses, adepts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adept" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abep, aceppt, acept, adap, adapta, adat, adath, adebt, adeft, adent, adeot, adep, adeph, Adepo, Adeptio, Adeste, adet, adiet, Adprt, Adrep, Adsett, Adyebo, ajdayt, ajet, aoet, arepp, Atepo, atipt, awet, Odet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pated, taped.

-1 letter: aped, date, pate, peat, tape, tepa.

-2 letters: ape, apt, ate, dap, eat, eta, pad, pat, pea, ped, pet, tad, tae, tap, tea, ted.

-3 letters: ad, ae, at, de, ed, et, pa, pe, ta.

+1 letter: adepts, depart, heptad, panted, parted, pasted, patted, pedant, pedate, pentad, petard, plated, prated, tamped, tapped, update.

+2 letters: adapted, adapter, adepter, adeptly, adopted, adoptee, adopter, coapted, dampest, depaint, departs, diptera, heptads, notepad, opiated, painted, pandect, partied, patched, patined, pedants, pendant, pentads, petaled, petards, pirated, pithead, plaited, planted, platted, pleated, podesta, pothead, predate, pupated, readapt, readopt, retaped, spathed, spatted, stamped, stapled, tadpole, taliped, tapered, tramped, trapped, updated, updater, updates, uprated.

+3 letters: accepted, adapters, adaptive, adeptest, adoptees, adopters, adoptive, antipode, aptitude, baldpate, baptised, baptized, bedplate, biparted, captured, carpeted, clodpate, cuspated, deathcup, depaints, departed, departee, depilate, depurate, despatch, dioptase, dipteral, dipteran, dustheap, endplate, eupatrid, expiated, impacted, imparted, impasted, lapidate, lappeted, notepads, operated, outpaced, packeted, palmated, palpated, paltered, pandects, pantiled, parented, pargeted, parroted, pastored, pastured, patented, pattered, pedantic, pedantry, pedately, pederast, pedestal, pendants, pennated, petalled, petalody, petaloid, phonated, picrated, pileated, pinnated, pitheads, placated, playdate, plicated, podestas, portaged, portaled, postdate, potheads, prattled, preacted, preadapt, preadmit, preadopt, preadult, preaudit, predated, predates, predator, pretaped, probated, pronated, prorated, pulsated, rapidest, raptured, readapts, readopts, repasted, repeated, replated, spicated, splatted, stampede, stapedes, stepdame, strapped, tadpoles, talipeds, tampered, tamponed, tapadera, tapadero, tapenade, teardrop, tetrapod, threaped, traipsed, trampled, trapesed, tripedal, unparted, untapped, updarted, updaters, upstaged, upstared, upwafted.

+4 letters: adaptable, adeptness, adipocyte, adoptable, amplitude, amputated, antipodes, apartheid, appendant, appointed, aptitudes, asperated, asphalted, aspirated, atrophied, attempted, audiotape, autopsied, baldpates, bedplates, bepainted, cadetship, captained, captioned, catnapped, chapleted, chaptered, clodpates, coadapted, compacted, comparted, copulated, cuspidate, dapperest, davenport, deathcups, deathtrap, deepwater, depainted, departees, departing, departure, dependant, depilated, depilates, depravity, deprecate, depredate, depurated, depurates, desperate, dioptases, diplomate, dipterans, disparate, disparted, dissipate, doorplate, drawplate, duplicate, dustheaps, endplates, entrapped, eupatrids, explanted, godparent, hepatized, impainted, impastoed, implanted, lapidated, lapidates, leadplant, misparted, oppilated, outleaped, outpassed, outplayed, outprayed, outspread, paginated, palliated, pantdress, parapeted, pargetted, parqueted, partnered, partridge, pastedown, patinated, patinized, patricide, patrolled, patterned, peculated, pederasts, pederasty, pedestals, pediatric, peptidase, permeated, perorated, pertained, petnapped, pigtailed, pintadoes, pixilated, planetoid, plastered, plateaued, platitude, platooned, playacted, playdates, populated, portrayed, postdated, postdates, practiced, practised, preadapts, preadmits, preadopts, preaudits, predacity, predating, predation, predators, predatory, predicate, preheated, prepasted, pretasted, printhead, ramparted, readapted, readopted, repainted, repatched, replanted, repudiate, restamped, separated, spattered, speciated, spectated, speedboat, spermatid, spoliated, sprattled, stampeded, stampeder, stampedes, standpipe, stapedial, stepdames, sulphated, supinated, tapaderas, tapaderos, tapenades, teardrops, tetrapods, therapsid, trapanned, trapezoid, trepanned, trepidant, unadapted, underpart, unpainted, unplaited, upstarted, videotape, zapateado.

+5 letters: acceptedly, adaptively, addlepated, adipocytes, adoptively, adsorptive, alphabeted, amplitudes, antependia, antipodean, apartheids, apodeictic, appendants, approbated, attempered, audiotapes, bankrupted, becarpeted, bipedality, cadetships, capsulated, captivated, carpetweed, catapulted, cooperated, copycatted, crepitated, davenports, deathtraps, decampment, decapitate, depainting, department, departures, dependants, depilating, depilation, depilatory, depletable, depopulate, deportable, depositary, deprecated, deprecates, depreciate, depredated, depredates, depredator, depressant, depurating, deputation, despatched, despatches, deutoplasm, dilapidate, diphtheria, diplomates, discrepant, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatches, dispersant, displanted, disputable, dissipated, dissipater, dissipates, doorplates, drawplates, duplicated, duplicates, empathised, empathized, enraptured, epauletted, eupatridae, evaporated, exculpated, expatiated, explicated, expurgated, extirpated, godparents, hyphenated, impetrated, implicated, imprecated, inaptitude, inculpated, interplead, juxtaposed, karyotyped, leadplants, maladapted, methyldopa, misadapted, mispainted, mispatched, misplanted, multipaned, outcapered, outpainted, outplanned, outspanned, outspreads, packthread, paddleboat, paediatric, palletised, palletized, palpitated, pantomimed, pantsuited, parachuted, parenthood, partridges, passivated, pasteboard, pastedowns, pathfinder, patricides, patronised, patronized, pedantries, pederastic, pedestaled, pedestrian, pediatrics, pediatrist, pediculate, pedimental, penetrated, pentahedra, pentaploid, peptidases, percolated, perennated, perforated, personated, petalodies, phantasied, phenolated, pitapatted, pixillated, plaistered, planetoids, planetwide, platinized, platitudes, podiatries, pollinated, ponytailed, postdebate, postmarked, postulated, potlatched, praelected, preadapted, preadopted, predations, predicated, predicates, preenacted, prestamped, pretrained, pretreated, printheads, privatised, privatized, procreated, proctodaea, propagated, prorogated, prostrated, protonated, protracted, prudential, pteranodon, pullulated, punctuated, pustulated, quadruplet, rapidities, reaccepted, readapting, readopting, rebaptized, recaptured, recarpeted, reoperated, repeatedly, replicated, reprobated, repudiated, repudiates, repudiator, rerepeated, sapidities, septicidal, spectacled, speculated, speedboats, spermatids, splattered, sporulated, stampeders, stampeding, standpipes, stepladder, stipulated, supplanted, suppurated, syncopated, tapestried, tetraploid, therapsids, transpired, transposed, trapezoids, trapnested, trespassed, unaccepted, unbaptized, uncarpeted, underpants, underparts, unparented, unpedantic, unstrapped, upgathered, vapidities, videotaped, videotapes, wiretapped, zapateados.

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