competent vs enough

competent

adj
  • Resistant to deformation or flow. 

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

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

  • Adequate for the purpose. 

  • Permeable to foreign DNA. 

enough

pron
  • A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. 

intj
  • Stop! Don't do that any more! 

noun
  • An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently. 

det
  • Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. 

adv
  • Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc. 

  • Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very. 

  • Sufficiently. 

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