Adept vs Unskilled - What's the difference?
adept | unskilled |
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 :
Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
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, title= Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
As adjectives the difference between adept and unskilled
is that adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient while unskilled is of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.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.
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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
* ----unskilled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
