Compliant vs Proficient - What's the difference?
compliant | proficient |
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
As adjectives the difference between compliant and proficient
is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.As a noun proficient is
an expert.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
*proficient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient .