Adjective

adept (comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest)

Positive adept

Comparative more adept or adepter

Superlative most adept or adeptest

  1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

Antonyms

Quotations

  • 1837-1839: Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
    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.

Noun

Singular adept

Plural adepts

adept (plural adepts)

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

Quotations

  • 1841: Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
    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.
  • 1894-95: Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    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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An adept is an individual identified as having attained a specific level of knowledge, skill, or aptitude in doctrines relevant to a particular author or organization.

Authors

H. P. Blavatsky

Although Madame Blavatsky makes liberal use of the term adept in her works to refer to any caretaker of ancient occult knowledge, in her 1877 work Isis Unveiled she asserts the capabilities of the adept as being able to take active control of elemental spirits as well as the physical and astral conditions of non-adepts.

Alice Bailey

In Alice Bailey's body of writing she outlines a hierarchy of spiritual evolution and an initiatory path along which an individual may choose to advance. In her works an Adept is defined as a being who has taken five of the seven initiations.

Orders

Various occult organizations have steps in which an initiate may ascend in their own magical system. Some call these steps degrees or grades.

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How does one say "Ever an adept and ardent scholar of life..." in Spanish?
Q. Hello, I'm trying to have a gift engraved for my friend from Mexico. Could someone please help me make sure I've translated this correctly? I want to say: "For Gabriela, Ever an adept and ardent scholar of life..." Here is my attempt: "Para Gabriela, Siempre una erudita habil y apasionada de la vida " Thanks so much!
Asked by Tanya - Tue Dec 8 12:42:10 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Your attempt is very fine, don't change words.
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Does Any One know an Easy Way to Pass The Teen-Smart Adept Driver, Test?
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A. Yes-- take the course seriously and study hard. That's going to be the easiest way.
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Was school interesting and adept at teaching prior to No Child Left Behind?
Q. I just see a lot of posts blaming poor education on NCLB. Is everyone who was educated in the public schools prior to this act a product of a superior system? Or was the problem there before NCLB?
Asked by pdooma - Sun Feb 17 12:38:06 2008 - - 13 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Only a liberal could call graduation rates under 40% "not great". Public schools are a complete disaster. No accountability, both parent and teachers, no guiding resolve to teach students, just get them passed along, and a focus on things such as athletics, proper condom use, political correctness, multicultural bs, removal of actual grades (feel good euphamisms are used today), focus on the meaningless "clubs". Parents making schools accountable for their responsibilities. School as day care... etc... We are seeing child obesity as a problem with our "schools"? What parent can't wake up and say, hey junior, your looking fat, I think we are getting rid of the x-box and getting you some play clothes and making you do some work around… [cont.]
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