Qualified vs Adept - What's the difference?
qualified | adept |
Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
Restricted or limited by conditions.
(qualify)
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 qualified and adept
is that qualified is meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As a verb qualified
is past tense of qualify.As a noun adept is
one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.qualified
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.
Antonyms
* unqualifiedVerb
(head)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
* See alsoAntonyms
* 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.