Definition of competent

"competent" in the adjective sense

1. competent

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient

"a competent typist"

2. competent

adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional

"a competent performance"

3. competent

legally qualified or sufficient

"a competent court"

"competent testimony"

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Quotations for competent

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me. [ Goethe ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

competent in Scrabble®

The word competent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters competent:

COMPETENT
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

compete

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word competent

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In competent

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competent in Words With Friends™

The word competent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 19

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters competent:

COMPETENT
(261)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

compete

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word competent

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In competent

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Words within the letters of competent

2 letter words in competent (7 words)

5 letter words in competent (9 words)

6 letter words in competent (8 words)

7 letter words in competent (1 word)

8 letter words in competent (1 word)

9 letter words in competent (1 word)

competent + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence competent

Words that start with competent (2 words)

Words with competent in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving competent

Shorter words in competent

pe pet compete

en ten tent

Longer words containing competent

competently incompetently

immunocompetent

incompetent incompetently

incompetent incompetents

noncompetent

overcompetent

ultracompetent