competent

Meaning of competent

adjective

Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
Adequate for the purpose
(of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.
Resistant to deformation or flow.

Information about competent

It is an adjective.
Languages in which competent is used:
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Hyphenation of competent

com-pe-tent

It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
competent is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

competent antonyms

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Translation of competent

Spanish: experto, consumado, dotado, experta, dotada, consumada
Italian: esperto
Portuguese: consumado
German: versiert
French: versé, versée

Words that rhyme with competent

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