Competent vs Purposive - What's the difference?
competent | purposive | 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:
Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 191:
*:Other ecclesiastics [...] were similarly accepting of a space for purposive and beneficent human action and betterment in a disenchanted world.
(psychology) Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
Pertaining to to or demonstrating purpose.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 78:
*:The world was generally agreed to be a purposive one, responsive to the wishes of its Creator […].
Possessed of a firm purpose; determined, resolute.
(grammar) Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.
Competent is a related term of purposive.
As adjectives the difference between competent and purposive
is that competent is competent (able) while purposive is serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.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 "