competent vs worthless

competent

adj
  • Adequate for the purpose. 

  • Resistant to deformation or flow. 

  • Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications. 

  • Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question. 

  • Permeable to foreign DNA. 

worthless

adj
  • Having no worth or use; without value. 

How often have the words competent and worthless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )