Suitable vs Adept - What's the difference?
suitable | adept |
Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
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 suitable and adept
is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion 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.suitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* fit for purpose (British) * up to standard (British)Antonyms
* unsuitableDerived terms
* suitabilitySee also
* fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruousExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsadept
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.
