nonadept
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is not an adept, one who has not mastered a particular esoteric discipline.
Example Sentences
- "Many people who disapprove of alcohol are actually terrified of losing control, which is the attitude of a nonadept."
- "A nonadept sacrifices God knows what, to set up a blockage even I can't Work through—'"
- "It is mysterious and appears sensually powerful to a nonadept."
- "Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area)."
- "One of the things that has bugged me a long time about strips—and it hasn't been solved yet—is that the comic artists seem to be totally nonadept at dealing with cultural diversity."
- "The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European [Term?]der. Proto-Italic *apjō Latin apiō Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -scō Latin apīscor Latin adipīscor Latin adeptusbor. French adeptebor. English adept English nonadept From non- + adept.