competent

1. a. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. Source: opted

2. a. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. Source: opted

3. adj. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient Source: wordnet

4. adj. adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional Source: wordnet

5. adj. legally qualified or sufficient Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

7. j:100 a. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient s. adequate for the purpose a. legally qualified or sufficient Source: ecdict

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