Word Meanings - COMPETENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to 1. Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton.

Additional info about word: COMPETENT

in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to 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. That is the privillege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. Locke. Syn. -- See Qualified.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPETENT)

• Adequate
• Equal
• sufficient
• fit
• satisfactory
• full
• competent
• capable
• able
• Good \adj Right
• complete
• sound
• pious
• benevolent
• propitious
• serviceable
• suitable
• efficient
• valid
• real
• actual
• considerable
• honorable
• reputable
• righteous
• proper
• true
• upright
• just
• excellent
• Proficient
• Expert
• clever
• practised
• skilled
• trained
• versed
• advanced
• conversant
• skilful
• well qualified
• Suitable
• Proper
• fitting
• becoming
• seemly
• befitting
• adequate
• eligible
• agreeable
• appropriate
• decent
• convenient
• accordant
• correspondent
• harmonious
• uniform
• homogeneous

Related words: (words related to COMPETENT)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• SKILFUL
  See SKILFUL
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• VERSABLENESS
  Versability.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• VERS DE SOCIETE
  See SOCIETY
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• OVERSHOT
  From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.