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Adept

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Noun

1. ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard

someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Adjective

2. adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

Example Sentences:
'adept in handicrafts'
'an adept juggler'
'an expert job'
'a good mechanic'
'a practiced marksman'
'a proficient engineer'
'a lesser-known but no less skillful composer'
'the effect was achieved by skillful retouching'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Adept

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adjective (əˈdɛpt )
1. 
very proficient in something requiring skill or manual dexterity
2. 
skilful; expert
noun (ˈædɛpt )
3. 
a person who is skilled or proficient in something

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Adept

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adjective
1. 
highly skilled; expert
noun
2. Word forms: ˈadˌept
a person who is highly skilled in some field of knowledge or work; expert

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Adept

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adj.
Very skilled or accomplished. See Synonyms at proficient.
n. (ădĕpt′)
A highly skilled person; an expert: "political consequences in getting rid of all the skeptics, unbelievers, and adepts of rival faiths" (Gene Lyons).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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