The Only Use of
adept
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- 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, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.†
p. 42.5unadept = not skillfulstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadept means not and reverses the meaning of adept. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
having skill in a particular area