adept

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

• (UK, US, adjective) IPA^(key): /əˈdɛpt/, /ˈæd.ɛpt/
• (UK, US, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ɛpt/, /ædˈɛpt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛpt

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

1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. , volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC:

     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.

• See also Thesaurus:skillful

• inept

adept (plural adepts)

1. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

   adepts in philosophy

   • 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.

• See also Thesaurus:skilled person

• “adept”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• taped, pated, PTAed

• adepta

Borrowed from Polish adept.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɛpt/
• Rhymes: -adɛpt
• Syllabification: a‧dept

adept m pers (female equivalent adeptka)

2. apprentice, trainee; novice (person training in a given field or new in a given field)

   Synonyms: pòczãtnik, debiutant, (archaic) swiéżi

3. follower, supporter (supporter of a doctrine or philosophical school)

   Synonym: przëstojnik

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “adept”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “adept”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “adept”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/
• Rhymes: -ɛpt

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adepter, definite plural adeptene)

1. an adept (person)

• “adept” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “adept” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”). The adjective is of the same origin, though likely through English adept.

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adeptar, definite plural adeptane)

1. an adept, skillful person
2. an inductee to an order, a secret society or a science
3. (historical) an alchemist
4. a very knowledgeable person
5. (by extension, derogatory) a know-it-all, a self-declared expert
6. a student of a craft

adept (indefinite singular adept, definite singular and plural adepte)

1. adept (very skilled)

• “adept” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin adeptus. Sense 1 and sense 2 are semantic loans from German Adept and French adepte.^[1] First attested in the 18th century.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɛpt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -adɛpt
• Syllabification: a‧dept

adept m pers (female equivalent adeptka)

2. apprentice, trainee; novice (person training in a given field or new in a given field)

   Synonyms: debiutant, początkujący

4. adept (person with secret information)
5. (oboslete) alchemist

   Synonym: alchemik

• adept in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adept in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adept”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adept”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7

Borrowed from French adepte.

adept m (plural adepți)

1. follower
2. disciple

adept c

1. a pupil, a student, an apprentice, a disciple

• lärjunge

• petad