Unadept

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who is not an adept.

    "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
  1. 1
    Not adept; unproficient.

Example

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"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 […]."

Etymology

From un- + adept.

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