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Adept

//əˈdɛpt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

    "adepts in philosophy"

  2. 2
    someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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