adept
nounUK, US /ædˈɛpt/
Etymology Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
1
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
- 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.1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
1 more example
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
- Derived terms
- nonadept