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.
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61. Normally the officials are not very competent.
62. Joe was always very, very calm, very competent.
63. Smiffy Blue is competent enough to solve his cases.
64. Competent skiers should find no difficulty with the course.
65. A road test by a competent mechanic would confirm.
66. Dortch-Okara ruled last August Salvi was competent.
67. It is both professionally and technically competent.
68. But these are competent love songs, carried on the strength of the 23-year-old's powerful and seductive vocals.
69. This is standard now in many coronary care units and is reliable provided staff are competent with the technique.
70. Neither of them was competent to do that type of business and they made an expensive mistake.
71. Its contract is to guarantee that the doctors consulted by members of the public are properly qualified and will give competent treatment.
72. The evidence seems to point to a legal style which a number of royal servants were competent to use.
73. She was a more than competent shorthand typist and an efficient secretary.
74. They are the values which will help us complete the transformation of Britain, under a Government competent, decent and strong.
75. The involvement of the competent authority is thus essential to the existence and nature of any coinage system.
76. He seemed far too competent for life to catch him out in so trivial a way.
77. A literate society is only as competent to face the dangers of the future as our definition of that adjective allows.
77. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
78. The competent, professional teacher, keen on his job, but with no wider political aims.
79. Have they become relatively more competent in dealing with them, or less competent?
80. There is great danger of a split in the party if a competent leader is not found soon.
81. And they like to be treated as the smart, competent people they are.
82. He did it without pushing and shoving but with competent authority.
83. The existing communicative skills of competent service providers are often underestimated.
84. I confirmed their own opinion that the picture was a very competent version of a missing Saraceni composition executed by a follower.
85. They tend to be more clingy and less competent, both socially and intellectually.
86. The Panel wants to be the competent authority and to be explicitly designated as such.
87. Thus, the island has increased output dramatically just by specializing, even though Gilligan was far less competent at both tasks!
88. It hired a competent manager from the private sector, Silvio Pelizzoni, but gave him little power.
89. The only cure for malpractice is careful, competent, caring doctors.
90. Dortch-Okara, who in August found Salvi competent to stand trial, refused to let Salvi release the statement.
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