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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adept
adjective
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▪ Housing activists argue the agency could sell more houses if it were more adept at reaching its target market.
▪ Not only do girls generally do better with language, reading, and writing; they are also socially more adept.
▪ There was no one more adept at tracing and rescuing sheep trapped in snow drifts.
▪ Slowly, the teacher enables the student to become more adept at putting forth effort for longer periods of time.
▪ The aids had to be given positively and as Katharine became more adept, Benji performed the changes more smoothly.
▪ Among his peers, only Jack Benny was more adept at milking a laugh than Groucho.
▪ He was also more adept at using his rhetorical skills in the service of theology and asceticism.
▪ Dole has been more adept at seizing photo opportunities in his out-of-town forays.
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▪ Because the Falcons are so adept at sacking quarterbacks, Young is not taking this 1-5 team lightly.
▪ A man so adept at this useless activity that he dueled empty-handed against swordsmen.
▪ But James Foley, usually so adept at ensemble direction, often leaves acting novice Barone looking awkward and stranded.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ McCrea was equally adept in comedy and drama.
▪ Of all our staff, Peter is the most adept at dealing with difficult customers.
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▪ At the same time, he became adept at nurturing his image as a tormented rebel in touch with primal truths.
▪ Dole has been more adept at seizing photo opportunities in his out-of-town forays.
▪ Jim Keith was particularly adept at this, and everybody sought his advice.
▪ Many are highly adept at adding up their calorie intake.
▪ Slowly, the teacher enables the student to become more adept at putting forth effort for longer periods of time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adept

Adept \A*dept"\, a. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

Beaus adept in everything profound.
--Cowper.

Adept

Adept \A*dept"\, n. [L. adeptus obtained (sc. artem), ?he who has obtained an art, p. p. of adipsci to arrive ?at, to obtain; ad + apisci to pursue. See Apt, and cf. Adapt.] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adept

1690s, "completely skilled" from Latin adeptus "having reached, attained," past participle of adipisci "to come up with, arrive at," figuratively "to attain to, acquire," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + apisci "grasp, attain," related to aptus "fitted" (see apt). Related: Adeptly.

adept

"an expert," especially "one who is skilled in the secrets of anything," 1660s, from Latin adeptus (see adept (adj.)). The Latin adjective was used as a noun in this sense in Medieval Latin among alchemists.

Wiktionary
adept

a. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient n. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

WordNet
adept
  1. adj. 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" [syn: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful]

  2. n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

Wikipedia
Adept

An adept is an individual identified as having attained a specific level of knowledge, skill, or aptitude in doctrines relevant to a particular author or organization.

Adept (comics)

Adept (Jelene Anderson) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as member of the Strikeforce: Morituri. The character was created by Peter B. Gillis and Brent Anderson.

Adept (band)

Adept is a Swedish metalcore band from Trosa. Formed in 2004, the band consists of vocalist Robert Ljung, guitarists Jerry Repo and Gustav Lithammer, bassist Filip Brandelius, and drummer Gabriel Hellmark. They have released 3 EPs and 4 studio albums to date, including Another Year of Disaster in 2009, Death Dealers (which saw a shift in sound from their original post-hardcore influences) in 2011, Silence the World in 2013, and their latest release Sleepless in 2016. They are currently signed to Napalm Records.

Adept (disambiguation)

An adept is a member of advanced degree in certain occult, esoteric, or philosophical organizations.

Adept may also refer to:

  • Adept (band), a post-hardcore band
  • Adept (comics), a superheroine in the Marvel comics universe
  • Adept (Dungeons & Dragons), a class in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
  • Magic Online Adepts, chat moderators for Magic: the Gathering Online trading card game
  • Adepts, see List of characters in Golden Sun, characters in the video game series Golden Sun with the ability to use Psynergy
  • Adept Manager, a Linux computer program frontend to apt
  • Adept Technology, a robotics, vision, automation controls company
  • ST Adept, a tugboat in service with the Admiralty from 1947 to 1957
  • A trade name of the pharmaceutical drug icodextrin

Usage examples of "adept".

Those two handsome adepts of Terpsichore had never met before, and they began an amorous warfare which made me enjoy my supper immensely, because, as he was a fellow artist, Marina assumed towards Baletti a tone well adapted to the circumstances, and very different to her usual manner with other men.

And a powerful Adept as well that much was evident from the signs all over him that pointed to constant manipulations of mage-energy on a scale Ancar had only dreamed of.

Falconsbane was not only an Adept, he was probably more powerful and knowledgeable than Ancar had dared to imagine.

Because they travelled around, and had many different pupils, in differing circumstances, the sophists became adept at arguing different points of view, and in time this bred a scepticism about their approach.

He beheld the living mystery, whirled into the dance of pure light as the adepts interceded, calling down the singing powers sent forth by Ath Creator.

The objects reported by von Koenigswald, if used in the same manner as South American bolas, imply that their makers were adept not only at stone-working but leatherworking as well.

General Vinoy has to-day issued a proclamation to the troops, which in its plain, simple, modest language contrasts very favourably with the inflated bombast in which his predecessor was so great an adept.

At this moment the young adept came in smiling, with her eyes full of fire.

Riddler, his murderous sister Cime, Bashir of Free Nisibis who brought Enlil into the war, and Grille, representative of Ranke under whose aegis even the Tysian mageguild had sent a young adept along to fight.

Adept was supposed to call a Domina, and compromised by leaving off the formal address entirely.

I was to be paid by the piece and therefore, since I was so adept at that craft, I would be earning rather more than the usual starvation wage.

Although Zinter is unusually adept, he is young and well beneath your level of accomplishment while Enam is struggling with disjunction.

Or she must find some way to use the meddling of the entelechy of the seventh sphere to her advantage: if Tempus sought out Datan and made an end to him, not Roxane or any other witch or adept of Wizardwall would scour the hills for souls to buy him peace.

She certainly preferred a letter to a mistimed telephone call, for the family, when far away as they were all far away now, were not at all adept at calculating the difference in hours between their time zones and her own-even when earlier, holding and rotating apples plucked from the epergne, they attempted to work out which way it was the globe turned and whether they should add or subtract a three or a six or a twelve from the local time told on their wristwatch faces.

What Fant really needed to cover was the fact that he was adept at robbing estates he represented.