Incompetent vs. Competent

Incompetentadjective

Unskilled; lacking the degree of ability that would normally be expected.

‘Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.’;

Competentadjective

Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.

‘He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.’;

Incompetentadjective

Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.

‘The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.’;

Competentadjective

(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’;

Incompetentadjective

(medical) Of the cervix: opening too early in pregnancy, provoking the baby to be born.

Competentadjective

Adequate for the purpose

Incompetentnoun

A person who is incompetent.

Competentadjective

permeable to foreign DNA

Incompetentadjective

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

‘Incompetent to perform the duties of the place.’;

Competentadjective

Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

Incompetentadjective

Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence; a mentally defective person is incompetent to care for himself and requires a legal guardian.

‘Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation.’;

Competentadjective

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.’;

Incompetentadjective

Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Competentadjective

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient;

‘a competent typist’;

Incompetentnoun

someone who is not competent to take effective action

Competentadjective

adequate for the purpose;

‘a competent performance’;

Incompetentadjective

not qualified or suited for a purpose;

‘an incompetent secret service’; ‘the filming was hopeless incompetent’;

Incompetentadjective

showing lack of skill or aptitude;

‘a bungling workman’; ‘did a clumsy job’; ‘his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf’;

Incompetentadjective

not doing a good job;

‘incompetent at chess’;

Incompetentadjective

not meeting requirements;

‘unequal to the demands put upon him’;