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ept

ept adjective: skillful and knowledgeable; adept. Also the simple past of eep.

Adjective

ept (comparative more ept, superlative most ept)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard) Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
    • 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

Proper noun capitalized: EPT

EPT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of European Poker Tour.

Noun capitalized: EPT

EPT (plural EPTs)

  1. (informal) A European Poker Tour event.

Also used as

ept is also the simple past of eep.

Examples of ept in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Forms of ept

Adjective
comparativemore ept
superlativemost ept
Noun
pluralEPTs

Origin of ept

Back-formation from inept; compare apt.

Formed by analogy with slept.

Questions about ept

What does ept mean?
Ept means skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
How do you use ept in a sentence?
They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."
What part of speech is ept?
Ept can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.

Words near ept in the dictionary

  1. Epsteinian
  2. epsteining
  3. Epsteinism
  4. epsteins
  5. epsteinuinely
  6. ept
  7. epta-
  8. eptagon
  9. eptagons
  10. eptameride
  11. eptamerides

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