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adept
Synonyms and Antonyms of adept
- heʼs an adept pitcher, and the team is lucky to have him
accomplished, ace, compleat, complete, consummate, crack, crackerjack, educated, experienced, expert, good, great, master, masterful, masterly, practiced (also practised), professed, proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso
adroit, clever, deft, dexterous (also dextrous), handy, slick, sure-handed
effective, effectual, efficient, workmanlike
able, capable, competent, employable, fit, fitted, habile, qualified
educated, knowledgeable, schooled, taught, trained, tutored
all-around (also all-round), well-rounded
Synonym Discussion of adept
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- proficient in translating foreign languages
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- adept at doing long division
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- a skilled surgeon
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- skillful drivers
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- expert in the evaluation of wines
adept
Synonyms and Antonyms of adept
- even by the standards of Washington, he's an adept at political intrigue and power politics
ace, artist, authority, cognoscente, connoisseur, crackerjack (also crackajack), dab [chiefly British], dab hand [chiefly British], expert, fiend, geek, guru, hand, hotshot, maestro, master, maven (also mavin), meister, past master, proficient, scholar, shark, sharp, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
consultant, hired gun, specialist
addict, aficionado (also afficionado), buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan
all-rounder [British], jack-of-all-trades, Renaissance man
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