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    [Adjective]  | "com*pe*tent" | \ ˈkäm-pə-tənt \


    1: proper or rightly pertinent

    2: having requisite or adequate ability or qualities : fit

    3: legally qualified or adequate


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, suitable, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin competent-, competens, from present participle of competere see: ;

    [Adjective]  | "competent" 


    1: having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance;


      * e.g., " ... any competent mechanic should be able to fix that "





    2: being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong;


      * e.g., " ... the arbiter has all the necessary information to make a competent decision on the matter "





     [ "competent" ]

    1: Having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable.

      * e.g.,  ... Any competent lawyer can draw up a will. 

     [ "competent" ]

    1: Being able to do things well.

      * e.g.,  ... Donald wasn't competent at business. He went bankrupt thrice. 

     [ "competize" ]

    1: When everything is going well but one person says/does something to change everything

      * e.g.,  ... "Yo boys let's get rowdy tonight!" "Naah man, gotta do this assignment." "BRO WHY YOU ALWAYS GOTTA COMPETIZE?" "Yo we still getting sushi today as we agreed 3 years ago?" "Naah sorry guys today is hot yoga day" "STOP COMPETIZING LIKE A LITTLE BITCH." 

     [ "competence" ]

    1: The art of performing a simple or non-simple task without fucking everything up

      * e.g.,  ... Our college notes were written by someone who clearly hasn't got competence 

     [ "Competional" ]

    1: One who is highly competitive and confrontational.

      * e.g.,  ... Derek is competional when it comes to winning games. 

     [ "compete" ]

    1: To give it your all and know you didn't leave anything on the field.

      * e.g.,  ... Always compete, and never quit. 


     [ "compete" ]

    2: To play through the pain, and never give up.

     [ "competer" ]

    1: One who competes. Also how a retard says the word "computer."

      * e.g.,  ... Tumor the retard says, "I want to play with my competer mommy now!" 

     [ "Competing" ]

    1: The annoying thing the teacher says when someone is talking when they happen to be explaining something.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1 (whispering): Hey person 2, when is the assignment du- 

     [ "Competence" ]

    1: Yeah, you see it's not the biggest strongest chimp that rules but the one the maintains relationships and blah blah blah women or something.

      * e.g.,  ... Hym "You see how he's just dialing back the competence thing, right? The Alpha male isn't the one who sluts out the most females it's the one that's nice to them or something. Just his subtle way of imposing his values on his fans. Be nice to women whether they sleep with you or not because that's the REAL competence. His whole thing is conflationary. He's conflating 'Competence' with 'association' because he knows success has more to do with association than competence. That's what he does. He says things that are untrue. And then just dials them back. It's a subtle way of trying to manipulate his fans into being nice to women and is evidence he doesn't give a shit about 'disaffected young men'. The manipulation is the evidence. Right there. " 

     [ "Competional" ]

    1: A term describing an individual who is competitive and confrontational. One who will do whatever it takes to win meaningless fights or games.

      * e.g.,  ... My buddy will debate the rules and intimidate other people in order to win a game, he is so competional. 

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