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# adept

«adept» in Mova's school dictionary: **Adjective: very skilled at doing something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; noun

### meaning for a pupil

1) Adjective: very skilled at doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#m1)

2) Noun: a person who is very skilled at something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a person who has become skilled in magic or a hard craft; in lessons, someone who is good at a task

### examples

- He is adept at chess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#x1)
- After years of study he became an adept in the black art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#x2)
- She is an adept at folding paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adept» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adept/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.