ept

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adjective

Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.

Less commonScrabble 5

Meanings

ept1

adjectiveept (comparative more ept, superlative most ept)

comparative more ept · superlative most ept

  1. humorousnonstandardSkillful and knowledgeable; adept.

    They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."

    1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133
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    These behaviors, developed in extremely bad basic and advanced training conditions were continued in better situations under more ept leadership.

    1984, Military Intelligence - Volumes 10-12, page 62

    ...known the ways of the world in Washington, and may not have been as one of my colleagues in the legislature said, "very ept", when it came to this stuff.

    1991, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics, Preliminary Inquiry Into Allegations Regarding Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and Riegle, and Lincoln Savings and Loan

    And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.

    2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 119

ept2

verb
  1. Internethumorouspastsimple past of eep

EPT3

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of European Poker Tour.
nounEPT (plural EPTs)

plural EPTs

  1. informalA European Poker Tour event.

Origin

ept · adjective

Back-formation from inept; compare apt.

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ept · verb

Formed by analogy with slept.

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