Definitions
having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Word origin
Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“adepts in philosophy”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Highly skilled”5 letters
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