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She is a competent student and I have no doubt she will be a competent lawyer one day.competent = sufficiently capable
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Is he competent to stand trial?competent = legally capable (of sound mind)
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She is competent, but she is not an outstanding manager.competent = capable of doing an adequate job
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If a person keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he can count on waking up some morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation. (source)competent = sufficiently capable
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She is competent on both violin and piano.
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He maneuvered the prow with competent hands. (source)competent = capable
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For this, he was tolerated, if not endorsed as the competent painter he was. (source)
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To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. (source)competent = sufficiently capable
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She tries to shoot me and it's immediately evident that she's incompetent with a bow. (source)incompetent = not sufficiently capablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetent means not and reverses the meaning of competent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Several months ago he had argued before her court, bumbling to the point of incompetence. (source)incompetence = not being capable of doing a sufficient jobstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetence means not and reverses the meaning of competence. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Dr. Cruz radiated competence, and the Clanica Santa Maraa, the modern hospital in Puntarenas, was spotless and efficient. (source)competence = ability
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Meanwhile, the judge sent George to Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa for a competency examination. (source)competency = legal capability
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Mammy said that before he left with Noor to join the jihad against the Soviets, back in 1980, it was Ahmad who had dutifully and competently minded these things. (source)competently = in a capable manner
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Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.† (source)incompetency = inability to do things sufficientlystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetency means not and reverses the meaning of competency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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What he would have asked her he did not say, and instead of encouraging him she remained incompetently silent.† (source)incompetently = in a way that is inadequate due to lack of abilitystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetently means not and reverses the meaning of competently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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My grades were good, and I was a competent standardized test taker. (source)competent = sufficiently capable
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"Humans reek," Bob replies. "They just don't notice because they have incompetent noses." (source)incompetent = bad (not sufficiently capable)
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The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency.
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competency = legal capability
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