Adept vs Inept - What's the difference?
adept | inept | Antonyms |
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 :
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence
Unfit; unsuitable
Inept is a antonym of adept.
As adjectives the difference between adept and inept
is that adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient while inept is not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.As a noun adept
is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.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.
Synonyms
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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.