competent

[com·pe·tent]

If you are competent, you have the necessary ability or skills to do something. If you can carry a heavy tray of food, and store a table's worth of orders in your head, you are probably a competent waitress.

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

Adjective S.
adequate for the purpose; "a competent performance"

Adjective
properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist"


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

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


Competent

Com"pe*tent (?; 94), a. [F. comp'82tent, p. pr. of comp'82ter to be in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to agree with; hence, to be fit. See Compete.] 1. Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton. "Competent statesmen." Palfrey. /"A competent witness." Bouvier. 2. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.]
That is the privillege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being.
Syn. -- See Qualified.

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

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Usage Examples

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

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Other Usage Examples

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

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

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

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