Adept vs Trained - What's the difference?
adept | trained | Related terms |
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 :
Having undergone a course of training (sometimes in combination).
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(train)
Adept is a related term of trained.
As adjectives the difference between adept and trained
is that adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient while trained is having undergone a course of training (sometimes in combination).As a noun adept
is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.As a verb trained is
(train).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
* ----trained
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
