Proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, expert mean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession Adept (comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest) well skilled Proficient implies a thorough competence derived from training and practice
Adept implies special aptitude as well as proficiency It is also recorded as an adjective from the mid 1600s. Skilled stresses mastery of technique.
Having a natural ability to do… See examples of adept used in a sentence. Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media.
He is adept at landscaping difficult lots. Definition of adept adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. In the days of medieval latin, an adeptus was a person who had learned the secrets of alchemy
There are two meanings listed in oed's entry for the noun adept See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence Oed's earliest evidence for adept is from 1673, in a translation by william cowper, surgeon and anatomist
