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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121. For the flood to yield up its riches, two things were required: a competent engineer and plenty of capital.
122. All three were highly competent, but their ambitions overrode their talent.
123. This needs to be said, because some churches feel more competent at the analysis than the action.
124. To the formation of a league, such as was the confederation, the state sovereignties were certainly competent.
125. A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem quickly.
126. Almost invariably the specialist or expert will focus on that section of the proposal which he feels most competent to criticize.
127. Some became apprentices who worked beside a master craftsman to become competent in their field.
128. There are no quick fixes that enable work-inhibited students to become academically competent.
129. In connection with the depiction of home makers as competent and decisive, the reader is offered two important insights here.
130. He was very competent and very ambitious, but he was also a tyrant.
131. The task of assessing this forceful leader must necessarily be left to others more competent and better informed than myself.
132. The police were not competent to enforce the civil provisions, which required that employers should do so.
133. A competent trial with moderation training, then, becomes a diagnostic procedure.
134. Fellow aviators described the cockpit crew of Flight 3272 as careful, competent pilots.
135. She was a jewel, tidy, competent, and thoughtful, but she should not be spoiled with familiarity.
136. The Directive was concerned with relations between competent authorities which were responsible for protecting the interests of investors and companies.
137. The employer must provide a competent staff, adequate material,(http://sentencedict.com/competent.html) a proper system and effective supervision.
138. From such apparently humble beginnings a competent operator can produce very professional documents indeed.
139. It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life.
140. Many teenage girls worry that if they appear too smart or competent, boys will be turned off.
141. I wanted to see how far a competent man could go in politics.
142. If anything this piece of writing is too competent, too clever.
143. Extremely accomplished and complex, Steinem is worthy of a competent and well-researched biography.
144. Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
145. Not every person who presents himself as the duty solicitor is competent to handle criminal matters.
146. Why this has happened I am not competent to say, but it could be a fruitful and fascinating subject for research.
147. Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to participate in teaching activities.
148. This two-hour concert was just a competent, well-structured history lesson by the king of the Armani blues.
149. Which is whether your son was mentally competent to commit a crime on May fourth, Nineteen-seventy-seven.
150. During his early teens, McKenzie was a competent soccer player but, as he grew his nimble-footed agility was lost.
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