Conversant vs. Competent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Conversant and Competent
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Conversant
Familiar or knowledgeable, as by study or experience
Conversant with medieval history.
Competent
Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable
A competent typist.
Conversant
Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
Competent
Adequate for the purpose
A competent performance.
Conversant
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.
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Competent
(Law) Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.
Conversant
(obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
Competent
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
Conversant
One who converses with another.
Competent
(legal) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
Judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
Conversant
Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
I have been conversant with the first persons of the age.
Competent
Adequate for the purpose
Conversant
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; - generally used with with, sometimes with in.
Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy.
He uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all.
Conversant only with the ways of men.
Competent
Permeable to foreign DNA.
Conversant
Concerned; occupied.
Education . . . is conversant about children.
Competent
(geology) Resistant to deformation or flow.
Conversant
One who converses with another; a convenser.
Competent
Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Conversant
(usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly;
Conversant with business trends
Familiar with the complex machinery
He was familiar with those roads
Competent
Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; - followed by to.
That is the privilege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being.
Competent
Properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient;
A competent typist
Competent
Adequate for the purpose;
A competent performance
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