Having a natural ability to do… Proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, expert mean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession Proficient implies a thorough competence derived from training and practice Adept implies special aptitude as well as proficiency Skilled stresses mastery of technique. 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. 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. He is adept at landscaping difficult lots. Definition of adept adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
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 It is also recorded as an adjective from the mid 1600s. Some common synonyms of adept are expert, proficient, skilled, and skillful While all these words mean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession, adept implies special aptitude as well as proficiency.
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