Fluent vs Adept - What's the difference?
fluent | adept |
That flows; flowing, liquid.
*, II.12:
(linguistics) Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.
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 :
As adjectives the difference between fluent and adept
is that fluent is that flows; flowing, liquid while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As a noun adept is
one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.fluent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- fluent handwriting
- For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent , without ever being stable or permanent.
Usage notes
In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency'' broadly, while in narrow use it refers to speaking a language ''flowingly, rather than haltingly.Anagrams
* ----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.