nonadept
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- 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 English nonadept From non- + adept.
- derived from adept English nonadept From non- + adept
- derived from adeptebor
Definitions
One who is not an adept, one who has not mastered a particular esoteric discipline.
- Many people who disapprove of alcohol are actually terrified of losing control, which is the attitude of a nonadept.
- A nonadept sacrifices God knows what, to set up a blockage even I can't Work through—'
- It is mysterious and appears sensually powerful to a nonadept.
Not adept
Not adept; unskilled.
- One of the things that has bugged me a long time about strips—and it hasn't been solved yet—is that the comic artists seem to be totally nonadept at dealing with cultural diversity.
- The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nonadept. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA