Specialist vs Adept - What's the difference?
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Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
(medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
(US, military) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
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 :
Specialist is a related term of adept.
As adjectives the difference between specialist and adept
is that specialist is (british) specialised while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As nouns the difference between specialist and adept
is that specialist is someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.specialist
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia specialist)Synonyms
* (Someone who is an expert or devoted to a particular area of study) aficionado, enthusiast, connoisseurAntonyms
* generalistHypernyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* specialisticAnagrams
* ----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.