Thesaurus: competent

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1. a. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
2. a. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
3. adj. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
4. adj. adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
5. adj. legally qualified or sufficient
6. 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. Locke. Syn. -- See Qualified.
7. j:100 a. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient s. adequate for the purpose a. legally qualified or sufficient