adept /əˈdɛpt/adjective 1/ˈæd.ɛpt/ noun 1forms 5 adjective1 •Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.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. — 1838 adept /ˈæd.ɛpt/ noun1 •One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficientOthers, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it. — 1894 formsadepts · adepter · more adept · adeptest · most adept