Adept vs Beginner - What's the difference?
adept | beginner |
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
Someone who sets (or puts) something in motion
As nouns the difference between adept and beginner
is that adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy while beginner is someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.As an adjective adept
is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.adept
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.
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* ineptNoun
(en noun)- 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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* pated, tapedReferences
* ----beginner
English
Noun
(en noun)- I'm pretty new at learning Japanese, I'm just a beginner .
- The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch .
