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Competent vs Systematic - What's the difference?

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Competent is a related term of systematic.


As adjectives the difference between competent and systematic

is that competent is competent (able) while systematic is carried out using a planned, ordered procedure.

competent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
  • He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
  • (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
  • Adequate for the purpose
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
  • "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 , 1922

    systematic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * systematick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Carried out using a planned, ordered procedure
  • Methodical, regular and orderly
  • Of, or relating to taxonomic classification
  • (proscribed) Of, relating to, or being a system
  • Antonyms

    * chaotic * haphazard * unsystematic

    Derived terms

    * systematically * systematicity * systematics