Definitions for adept

adept a·dept

Spelling: [adjective uh-dept; noun Adept is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in adept (adept).

Definitions for adept

noun

  1. a skilled or proficient person; expert.

adjective

  1. very skilled; proficient; expert:

Origin of adept

1655-65; Medieval Latin adeptus one who has attained (the secret of transmuting metals), noun use of L past participle of adipiscī to attain to (ad- ad- + -ep-, combini

Examples for adept

My grandfather was an adept in both, and knew, besides, the Duke of Orleans well.

Through the years he became just as adept at politics as he was on horseback.

These same companies have also been adept at circumventing user privacy and avoiding their tax obligations.

If my doubts are well founded, he must be an adept in the art of dissimulation.

I am an adept in pretending that I don't see, and I don't hear.

Gosling is just as adept at wearing what Jannuzzi says is the next trend for summer: the tank top.

Dawkins is an adept cultural fire-conductor; the title of his bestselling book The God Delusion gives a clear indicator why.

Lyttelton was an adept in the artifices of fashionable intrigue.

Perhaps I may be able to give you some help in this quest, being myself an adept in Love's lore.

As a former law professor at several elite law schools, he is adept at discussing high constitutional theory.

Word Value for adept
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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