competent

Speech parts

1. competent - Adjective

2. competent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

effective capable experienced efficient fit acceptable skilled adequate qualified reasonable expert talented satisfactory adept proficient
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Antonyms

incompetent ungainly crummy slipshod poor unable
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Phrases with the word

extremely competent highly competent competent person less competent competent to in a competent manner

Examples

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. John Maynard Keynes

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. John D. Carmack

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. Frederick Winslow Taylor

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. Thomas Babington Macaulay

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. Billy Joel

Close letter words and terms

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