Competent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPETENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• able
• having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully
• (of a person) efficient and capable
• acceptable and satisfactory, though not outstanding
• (of a court or other body) accepted as having legal authority to deal with a particular matter
• capable of performing the normal function effectively.
• having the skill or knowledge to do something well
• Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
• Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
• properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
• adequate for the purpose
• legally qualified or sufficient
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• proper or rightly pertinent

Words related to COMPETENT

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Words that contain COMPETENT

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How to use COMPETENT in a sentence

• The fortune of the general, though handsome, was not more than competent to support his style of living.
• The questions which many loved to discuss, and thought themselves quite competent to settle, were never willingly the topic of her conversation.
• In this connection he repeated his statement that from this, among other causes, he did not regard himself as competent to give an opinion.
• There is no one man recognized as the man most competent to speak on art of every kind.
• It showed bronzed faces, competent gestures, stained uniforms, the marks of veterans, men who had been in action many times with their guns.
• Anything so detestable as the Government I have nowhere witnessed, and a man less competent to govern them than the King I have never known.
• The men observed discipline, kept within bounds and listened to the advice of those competent to give it.
• Where the Church consisted of a single congregation, and where only one of the elders was competent to preach, it is easy to understand how the society was regulated.
• In point of fact, however, he shrank, especially in his later years, from the controversy more than others did, who were far less competent to manage it.
• Now, it is true the power of God is competent to innumerable things utterly beyond our skill, knowledge, or conception.
• He would get better care, they would find more competent doctors, the change of air would strengthen him.
• Also, competent man to superintend construction of buildings, and manage all parts of business when complete.
• The man had jumped upon the tripod of the drill in ordering the work, and loomed large and competent.
• Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence.
• No man needed money more than he, and he was confident that his mechanical skill was of an order which made him as competent as any one else to achieve the task proposed.
• May a man be fitted for political preferment and not be competent to pass an adequate examination? 10.
• That the Declaration was unconstitutional is universally agreed, for a monarch competent to issue such a document is nothing less than an absolute ruler.
• It demands also a competent legislature, which is a rarity.
• The practical range man is usually a competent cook, and from the stores of the winter camp a number of extra dishes were planned.
• His recent appointment to the command of a corps by one so competent to judge as General Sherman proves this.
• Hilbery thought himself competent to see that she did nothing further to compromise herself.
• The quality of coffee grown in the republic of Liberia, on the western coast of Africa, is pronounced by competent judges to be equal to any in the world.
• You have had enough experience with both types to be competent to distinguish the one from the other.
• These men were generally competent workers and clever agitators, and many of them soon obtained prominence and official position in the Unions.

Similar words containing MPET without suffix ent and without prefix co

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