adept

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1. adept - Noun

2. adept - Adjective

3. adept - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

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It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted. Alexander McCall Smith

Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. Aristophanes

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. Dan Brown

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. George Bernard Shaw

I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. ... The economic future will belong to the technologically adept. Angus King

I'm never going to be as adept lyrically as Jay Z or Morrissey. Chris Martin

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