Compliant vs Competent - What's the difference?
compliant | competent |
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
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:
As adjectives the difference between compliant and competent
is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while competent is having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.compliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The suspect was compliant when arrested.
- The browser is standards compliant .
- The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Derived terms
(compatible with guidlines) * *See also
* compliantlyAnagrams
*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 "