Adept vs Scholar - What's the difference?
adept | scholar |
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 :
A student; one who studies at school or college.
A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
A learned person; a bookman.
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As nouns the difference between adept and scholar
is that adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy while scholar is a student; one who studies at school or college.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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English
(Scholarly method)Noun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,