competent suggests measuring up to all requirements without question or being adequately adapted to an end.

COMPETENT definition: having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified. See examples of competent used in a sentence.

COMPETENT meaning: 1. able to do something well: 2. able to do something well: 3. having the skills or knowledge to….

1. Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable: a competent typist. 2. Adequate for the purpose: a competent performance. 3. Law Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.

Definition of competent adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Someone who is competent is efficient and effective. He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant. Synonyms: able, skilled, capable, clever More Synonyms of competent. The …

If you are competent, you have the necessary ability or skills to do something. If you can carry a heavy tray of food and store a table's worth of orders in your head, you are probably a competent waiter.