Competent vs Forcible - What's the difference?
competent | forcible | Related terms |
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
(legal) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
Adequate for the purpose
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
Able to be forced.
Having force.
* Bible, Job vi. 2
* Francis Bacon
* Hooker
Done by force. Oxford American Dictionaries (MacBook widget)
* 2008 , U.S. Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Having a powerful effect; telling
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Competent is a related term of forcible.
As adjectives the difference between competent and forcible
is that competent is competent (able) while forcible is able to be forced.competent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
- For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
- judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
- "For if [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 "
Quotations
* "I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922 * "That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922forcible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How forcible are right words!
- Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.
- That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.
Crime in the United States
- Forcible rape, as defined in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Attempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded.