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adapt: adjust
adept: proficient

Adept: The noun adept has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz -- (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)

The adj adept has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful -- (having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching")

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Coordinate Terms: 1 sense of adept

Sense 1
ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz -- (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
-> expert -- (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
=> ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz -- (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
=> agronomist -- (an expert in soil management and field-crop production)
=> all-rounder, all arounder -- (a versatile person who is expert at many things; "she's the best all-rounder they've seen in years")
=> analyst -- (someone who is skilled at analyzing data)
=> analyst -- (an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions)
=> anatomist -- (an expert in anatomy)
=> antiquary, antiquarian, archaist -- (an expert or collector of antiquities)
=> arbiter, supreme authority -- (someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion")
=> archer, bowman -- (a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow)
=> authority -- (an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law")
=> black belt -- (a person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate))
=> cabalist, kabbalist -- (an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters)
=> calculator, reckoner, figurer, estimator, computer -- (an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines))
=> climatologist -- (someone who is expert in climatology)
=> computer expert, computer guru -- (an authority on computers and computing)
=> cosmetologist -- (an expert in the use of cosmetics)
=> efficiency expert, efficiency engineer -- (an expert in increasing the efficient use of machines and personnel)
=> exegete -- (a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts))
=> genealogist -- (an expert in genealogy)
=> geographer -- (an expert on geography)
=> horticulturist, plantsman -- (an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants))
=> investigator -- (someone who investigates)
=> jurist, legal expert -- (a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations)
=> lapidary, lapidarist -- (an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them)
=> logician, logistician -- (a person skilled at symbolic logic)
=> mnemonist -- (an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory)
=> mythologist -- (an expert on mythology)
=> observer, commentator -- (an expert who observes and comments on something)
=> out-and-outer -- (someone who is excellent at something)
=> parliamentarian -- (an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures)
=> past master -- (someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity)
=> prosthetist -- (an expert in prosthetics)
=> pteridologist -- (an expert in the study of ferns)
=> scout, pathfinder, guide -- (someone who can find paths through unexplored territory)
=> shark -- (a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark")
=> shot, shooter -- (a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter")
=> specialist, specializer, specialiser -- (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)
=> talent -- (a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity)
=> technician -- (someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique)
=> technocrat -- (an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group)
=> therapist, healer -- (a person skilled in a particular type of therapy)
=> veteran, old-timer, oldt imer, old hand, warhorse, old stager, stager -- (an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service)