Synonym: able, adequate, capable, effective, fit, qualified. Antonym: incapable, incompetent, inefficient. Similar words: competence, competency, compete, competitor, competitive, competition, completeness, detente. Meaning: ['kɑmpətənt /'kɒmpət(ə)nt] 
adj. 1. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient 2. adequate for the purpose.
adj. 1. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient 2. adequate for the purpose. 
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1. She's extremely competent and industrious.
2. He's not competent to look after young children.
3. He is competent for the task.
4. A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
5. He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
6. Two competent witnesses testified.
7. He's very competent in his work.
8. He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
9. I don't feel competent to comment.
10. We believe the patient was not mentally competent .
11. Her drawing is competent, but her composition is poor.
12. It's a competent essay but it lacks individuality.
13. This court is not competent to hear your case.
14. She is competent in five languages.
15. He was not considered competent to teach seven-year-olds.
16. He is competent to do it.
17. The workmen did a competent job .
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18. I had always considered myself a strong, competent woman.
19. I was deemed to be a competent shorthand typist.
20. She's a highly competent linguist.
21. I summed her up as a competent manager.
22. She always does a competent job.
23. He did a competent job.
24. She was praised for her competent handling of the crisis.
25. It's a competent enough piece of writing but it lacks flair.
26. She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself.
27. He's a competent enough officer, but I doubt he'll ever make general.
28. We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts.
29. A year of college had made her more socially competent.
30. The defence argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case.
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