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adept

adj
/əˈdɛpt/UK

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”).

  1. derived from adeptus
  2. borrowed from adepte

Definitions

  1. Well skilled

    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.

  2. One fully skilled or well versed in anything

    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.
    • Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.

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Derived

nonadept

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adept. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01adept02versed03knowledgeable04informed05inform06knowledge07knowing08clever

A definitional loop anchored at adept. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at adept

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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