Adept vs Advanced - What's the difference?
adept | advanced |
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 :
(advance)
(senseid)At or close to the state of the art.
Enhanced.
Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
* Hawthorne
In a late stage of development; greatly developed beyond an initial stage.
(phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
As adjectives the difference between adept and advanced
is that adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient while advanced is (at or close to state of the art)At or close to the state of the art.As a noun adept
is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.As a verb advanced is
past tense of advance.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
* ----advanced
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles
