Competent and Finished

Competent

Competent adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.

Finished and competent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Finished" instead an adjective "Competent".

Finished

Finished adjective - Brought or having come to an end.

Competent and finished are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Competent" instead an adjective "Finished".

Nearby Words: finish, finishing, finisher

Both words in one sentence

  • What the Fu Are You Doing? He passes the audition, but at the end of the episode we see the finished commercial; Bulk is the "before" and Tommy (who actually is a competent martial artist) is the "after".
  • The fifth and most competent and powerful goes about avenging his brothers, and is not yet finished this task when he is squished to death by a passing giant.
  • I will also use my knowledge of just what finished off most Native American civilizations' ability to resist and have all diplomatic gifts from alien cultures and all visiting aliens quarantined and screened by at least two competent microbiologists, a virologist and a molecular biologist.
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