competentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpətənt/

形容詞

competent (comparative more competent, superlative most competent)

1. Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.

   He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.

2. (law) 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

3. Adequate for the purpose.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:

     For if they [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been ſo big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them, and ſo every body would have had the wit to catch the Old one.

4. (biology, of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.
5. (geology) Resistant to deformation or flow.

反意語

• incompetent

関連する語

• bicompetent
• competence
• competentness
• compete
• competition
• tricompetent

Latin

動詞

competent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of competō