eptadj.

/ɛpt/

Etymology: Back-formation < inept adj.

Used as a deliberate antonym of ‘inept’: adroit, appropriate, effective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilful or adroit

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happya1400

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feat1519

well-handeda1529

handsome1542

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dexterous1622

adroit1652

right-handeda1661

artful1663

nitle1673

ambidextrousa1682

clever1716

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slick1807

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two-handed1861

nifty1889

mean1918

organized1926

ept1938

1938 E. B. White Let. Oct. (1976) 183 I am much obliged..to you for your warm, courteous, and ept treatment of a rather weak, skinny subject.

1966 Time 30 Sept. 7/1 With the exception of one or two semantic twisters, I think it is a first-rate job—definitely ept, ane and ert.

1976 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 15 The obvious answer is summed up by a White House official's sardonic crack: ‘Politically, we're not very ept.’

Derivatives

ˈeptitude n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill or adroitness

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sleightc1385

subtiltyc1405

subtilityc1415

facility1532

handsomeness1550

address?1577

neatnessa1627

adroitness1683

hability1840

deftness1853

niftiness1878

slickness1895

eptitude1967

1967 New Yorker 11 Mar. 133/1 At the start of a season, the custom milliners are always full of ertia and eptitude—an attitude that I parage.

1970 Guardian 3 Nov. 11/1 The Foreign Secretary has a deserved reputation for being an accident prone speechmaker, and his eptitude—if that is a word—is sometimes questionable.

1978 Observer 29 Jan. 4/8 The affair..has contributed to what has been called his ‘eptitude problem’: his ability, when he is wrong-footed, to extricate himself cleanly from the resulting mess.

ˈeptly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > skilfully or adroitly

slylyc1275

sly1370

featly1436

addresslya1500

sleightly?c1510

clean1531

trickly1542

neatlya1547

trick1564

cleanly1583

cleverly1654

clever1664

adroitly1695

adeptly1804

slick1825

shrewdly1851

cleverishly1881

slickly1893

niftily1901

eptly1974

1974 New Yorker 29 Apr. 129/1 Five masked instrumentalists visit, play a sort of march, exchange instruments and play it again, necessarily rather less eptly.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	ept
释义	eptadj. /ɛpt/ Etymology: Back-formation < inept adj. Used as a deliberate antonym of ‘inept’: adroit, appropriate, effective. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilful or adroit hendc1275 happya1400 clean1485 habile1485 practivea1500 feat1519 well-handeda1529 handsome1542 trick1542 neat1571 dexterous1622 adroit1652 right-handeda1661 artful1663 nitle1673 ambidextrousa1682 clever1716 jemmy1751 slick1807 sleek1822 cleverish1826 featy1844 two-handed1861 nifty1889 mean1918 organized1926 ept1938 1938 E. B. White Let. Oct. (1976) 183 I am much obliged..to you for your warm, courteous, and ept treatment of a rather weak, skinny subject. 1966 Time 30 Sept. 7/1 With the exception of one or two semantic twisters, I think it is a first-rate job—definitely ept, ane and ert. 1976 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 15 The obvious answer is summed up by a White House official's sardonic crack: ‘Politically, we're not very ept.’ Derivatives ˈeptitude n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill or adroitness subtletyc1300 sleightc1385 subtiltyc1405 subtilityc1415 facility1532 handsomeness1550 address?1577 neatnessa1627 adroitness1683 hability1840 deftness1853 niftiness1878 slickness1895 eptitude1967 1967 New Yorker 11 Mar. 133/1 At the start of a season, the custom milliners are always full of ertia and eptitude—an attitude that I parage. 1970 Guardian 3 Nov. 11/1 The Foreign Secretary has a deserved reputation for being an accident prone speechmaker, and his eptitude—if that is a word—is sometimes questionable. 1978 Observer 29 Jan. 4/8 The affair..has contributed to what has been called his ‘eptitude problem’: his ability, when he is wrong-footed, to extricate himself cleanly from the resulting mess. ˈeptly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > skilfully or adroitly slylyc1275 sly1370 featly1436 addresslya1500 sleightly?c1510 clean1531 trickly1542 neatlya1547 trick1564 cleanly1583 cleverly1654 clever1664 adroitly1695 adeptly1804 slick1825 shrewdly1851 cleverishly1881 slickly1893 niftily1901 eptly1974 1974 New Yorker 29 Apr. 129/1 Five masked instrumentalists visit, play a sort of march, exchange instruments and play it again, necessarily rather less eptly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmas EPT EPT n. excess profits tax (see excess profits at excess n. 6b); cf. EPD n. Π 1940 Economist 6 Jan. 3/1 There is the unknown yield of E.P.T. 1986 Offshore Engineer Sept. 19/1 Originally, Oslo had intended to allow only partial EPT uplifts against investments. 2016 M. R. Wilson Destructive Creation iv. 162 For individual companies, the EPT—which Congress would raise to 95 percent in 1944—had very serious implications. extracted from En.¹ < adj.1938 as lemmas
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eptadj.

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