COMPETENT meaning: Adequately skilled for specific task

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word competent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

competent: Merriam-Webster.com
competent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
competent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
competent: Collins English Dictionary
competent: Vocabulary.com
Competent, competent: Wordnik
competent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
competent: Wiktionary
competent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
competent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
competent: Infoplease Dictionary
competent: Dictionary.com
competent: Online Etymology Dictionary
competent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Competent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Competent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
competent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
competent: Rhymezone
competent, competent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
competent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
competent: Free Dictionary
competent: Mnemonic Dictionary
competent: Dictionary/thesaurus
competent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

competent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
competent: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
competent: Legal dictionary
competent: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

competent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

competent: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

competent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
▸ adjective:  (law) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
▸ adjective:  Adequate for the purpose.
▸ adjective:  (biology, medicine, of an organ, tissue, or system) Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
▸ adjective:  (biology, of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.
▸ adjective:  (geology) Resistant to deformation or flow.

Opposite:

incompetent, inept, unskilled, incapable, inadequate

Types:

skilled, able, capable, proficient, more...

Phrases:

Competent authority, competent evidence, competent witness, immune competent, immunologically competent cell, more...

Colors:

blue, gray, silver, black, white, more...

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