Both Uses of
competent
in
Uglies
- You uglies are so…incompetent!
Part 3incompetent = 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.
- It was nice to be the competent one for a change.
Part 3 *competent = sufficiently capable
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability