unadept

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ adept.

Noun

unadept (plural unadepts)

  1. Someone who is not an adept.
    • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
      And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge […].

Adjective

unadept (comparative more unadept, superlative most unadept)

  1. Not adept; unproficient.

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