Seasoned vs Adept - What's the difference?
seasoned | adept |
(season)
Experienced, especially in terms of a profession or a hobby
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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 seasoned and adept
is that seasoned is experienced, especially in terms of a profession or a hobby while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As a verb seasoned
is (season).As a noun adept is
one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.seasoned
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities.
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.
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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.