adept
adjectiveHow many syllables in adept?
There are 2 syllables in the word adept.How to pronounce adept:
Definition of adept:
- adept (adjective):
- thoroughly proficient expert
- proficient in something requiring skill
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
Synonyms for adept:
able
accomplished
ace
adroit
capable
competent
complete
consummate
crack
crackerjack
dexterous
educated
experienced
expert
gifted
good
great
master
masterful
masterly
practiced
practised
professed
proficient
skilful
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Antonyms for adept:
abysmal
accident-prone
all fingers and thumbs
all thumbs
amateur
amateurish
apathetic
appalling
apprentice
artless
atrocious
average
awful
awkward
bad
badly performing
beginning
below par
below standard
benighted
bland
blundering
blunderous
blunt
boring
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Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- Aesop
- absolve
- roughly
- herbal
- drumstick
- hundredth
- grandeur
- destressed
- attired
- unglove
- knick-knack
- cutely
- stork'sbill
- searing
- fairway
- maza
- grumble
- crumbly
- shuttle
- rapport
- hummus
- demal
- chassis
- awash
- vexing
- shackles
- henhouse
- methought
- edict
- carouse
- uncooked
- sprinkling
- reproached
- reposed
- nausea
- mildness
- fulcrum
- disrupt
- Celtic
- springtime
- rewrap
- devours
- apace
- combing
- tannish
- hounder
- succoured
- distanced
- towered
- modest
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