unadept

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noun

Someone who is not an adept.

OriginEnglish adept ← French adepte ← Latin adeptu →
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Meanings

noununadept (plural unadepts)

plural unadepts

  1. Someone who is not an adept.

    And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge […].

    1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
adjectiveunadept (comparative more unadept, superlative most unadept)

comparative more unadept · superlative most unadept

  1. Not adept; unproficient.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  9. Proto-Italic*ad
  10. Proto-Italic*ad-
  11. Latinad-
  12. Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
  13. Proto-Italic*apjō
  14. Latinapiō
  15. Latinapīscor
  16. Latinadipīscor
  17. Latinadeptu
  18. Frenchadepte
  19. Englishadept
  20. Englishunadept

From un- + adept.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

unadept. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unadept

MLA

“unadept.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unadept. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unadept,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unadept.

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