adept

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

   adept in handicrafts

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

   adepts in philosophy

4. 4
   noun

   someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin apiō Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -scō Latin apīscor Latin adipīscor Latin adeptusbor. French adeptebor. English adept Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).