Proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, expert mean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession He is adept at landscaping difficult lots. 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 something that needs skill Having a natural ability to do… See examples of adept used in a sentence. Definition of adept adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media. The office address of adept heating & air cond is 2200 chambers rd # e aurora, colorado
In the days of medieval latin, an adeptus was a person who had learned the secrets of alchemy Although an adept person today cannot turn lead into gold, the adjective is still high praise meaning skilled, expert, highly proficient. 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
