Synonyms for Competent:

• adj.

  •able (adjective)
  • skilled,
  • know one's stuff,
  • dynamite,
  • suitable,
  • au fait,
  • no slouch,
  • wicked,
  • pertinent,
  • equal,
  • fool,
  • know the answers,
  • endowed,
  • know the score,
  • being a pistol,
  • on the ball,
  • appropriate,
  • savvy,
  • know one's business,
  • know ins and outs,
  • paid one's dues,
  • all around,
  • crisp,
  • know the ropes,
  • adapted,
  • polished,
  • complete.
  •adequate (adjective)
  • more acceptable,
  • more suitable,
  • FAIRER,
  • un objectionable,
  • un-exceptional,
  • un-objectionable,
  • unexceptional,
  • most sufficing,
  • un exceptional,
  • more sufficing.
  •all (adjective)
  • competent.
  •capable (adjective)
  • knowing score,
  • like pistol,
  • on ball,
  • having knowhow,
  • most fireball,
  • up it,
  • therer,
  • having know how,
  • most old-timer,
  • more old timer,
  • like a oneman band,
  • most oldtimer,
  • more fireball,
  • having goods,
  • like one-man band,
  • most up,
  • like a one man band,
  • therest,
  • like oneman band,
  • veteran,
  • more dynamite,
  • more up,
  • more oldtimer,
  • up speed,
  • most old timer,
  • up snuff,
  • most dynamite,
  • more suited,
  • most capable,
  • more talented,
  • more old-timer,
  • old timer,
  • having right stuff,
  • like one man band,
  • has what takes.
  •clever (adjective)
  • most egghead,
  • re sourceful,
  • shrewdest,
  • most knowledgeable,
  • slick,
  • manysided,
  • nobody fool,
  • more crackerjack,
  • dexterous-dextrous,
  • dexterousdextrous,
  • re-sourceful,
  • dexterous dextrous,
  • many sided,
  • quick trigger,
  • nobody's fool,
  • pro,
  • most crackerjack,
  • quickwitted,
  • quick witted,
  • more skilled,
  • nobodys fool,
  • wisest,
  • savviest,
  • foxy,
  • more egghead,
  • witty.
  •cut out for (adjective)
  • de-signed,
  • most designed,
  • more designed,
  • de signed.
  •decent (adjective)
  • fair middling,
  • de-cent,
  • un-impeachable,
  • middling,
  • un impeachable,
  • de cent.
  •effective (adjective)
  • potent,
  • powerhouse,
  • having lead in pencil,
  • forcible,
  • most telling,
  • playing hardball,
  • virtuous.
  •efficacious (adjective)
  • puissant.
  •efficient (adjective)
  • more well-organized,
  • most well organized,
  • most efficient,
  • more well organized,
  • wellorganized,
  • more wellorganized,
  • more efficient,
  • well organized,
  • most well-organized,
  • most wellorganized,
  • most valuable.
  •enough (adjective)
  • co pious,
  • un limited,
  • more bellyful,
  • replete,
  • un-limited,
  • sick tired of,
  • most bellyful,
  • enough already,
  • co-pious.
  •experienced (adjective)
  • having something ball,
  • Sporter,
  • wellversed,
  • knowing ones stuff,
  • knowing stuff,
  • having something the ball,
  • in know,
  • having on the ball,
  • most wellversed,
  • most well-versed,
  • having on ball,
  • more well-versed,
  • more well versed,
  • vetest,
  • having something on ball,
  • having the ball,
  • the right stuff,
  • well versed,
  • knowing one stuff,
  • having something on the ball,
  • sportest,
  • Worldlywise,
  • more wellversed,
  • most well versed.
  •fit (adjective)
  • more well suited,
  • most wellsuited,
  • ablebodied,
  • more well-suited,
  • rightful,
  • pre-pared,
  • more wellsuited,
  • more correspondent,
  • be-fitting,
  • de serving,
  • pre pared,
  • be-coming,
  • de-serving,
  • most toned,
  • most correspondent,
  • most desirable,
  • more toned,
  • most well-suited,
  • most well suited,
  • well suited,
  • most muscled,
  • able bodied,
  • wellsuited,
  • hale,
  • more muscled,
  • robust.
  •full (adjective)
  • more brimful,
  • more suffused,
  • most crammed,
  • chockfull,
  • more crammed,
  • more glutted,
  • more plethoric,
  • most surfeited,
  • most weighted,
  • most jam-packed,
  • pro fuse,
  • more sated,
  • more gorged,
  • in tact,
  • more stocked,
  • over flowing,
  • most plethoric,
  • most imbued,
  • most satiated,
  • in-tact,
  • chock full,
  • more weighted,
  • most sated,
  • most glutted,
  • satiated,
  • most gorged,
  • over-flowing,
  • more surfeited,
  • most stocked,
  • most jam packed,
  • pro-fuse,
  • voluminous,
  • more jam-packed,
  • more satiated,
  • most suffused,
  • more imbued,
  • sated,
  • more jam packed.
  •knowing (adjective)
  • erudite,
  • wise,
  • with-it,
  • intellectual,
  • well-informed,
  • shrewd,
  • Sophic,
  • cognizant,
  • tuned-in,
  • canny,
  • percipient,
  • educated,
  • streetwise,
  • intelligent,
  • learned,
  • omniscient,
  • encylopedic,
  • witting,
  • informed.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • fireball,
  • full,
  • well-suited,
  • toned,
  • up to it,
  • efficacious,
  • sufficient,
  • having know-how,
  • weighted,
  • experienced,
  • equal to,
  • seasoned,
  • phenom,
  • self-sufficient,
  • there,
  • be coming,
  • sick and tired of,
  • nimble-witted,
  • satisfactory,
  • up on,
  • clever,
  • versed,
  • been around,
  • be fitting,
  • smart as a whip,
  • had it,
  • plentiful,
  • responsible,
  • knowing,
  • bumper,
  • worldly wise,
  • well-provided,
  • bellyful,
  • oldtimer,
  • Muscled,
  • jammed full,
  • efficient,
  • good at,
  • up here,
  • quick on the trigger,
  • all there,
  • wrapped tight,
  • broken in,
  • adequate,
  • battle-scarred,
  • fit as fiddle,
  • like a one-man band,
  • fit as a fiddle,
  • up to snuff,
  • VETER,
  • well-versed,
  • all right already,
  • powerful,
  • quick on the uptake,
  • moderately good,
  • effective,
  • has what it takes,
  • proficient,
  • like a pistol,
  • professional,
  • in good condition,
  • lousy with,
  • up to speed,
  • packed like sardines,
  • having the goods,
  • knowing one's stuff,
  • having the right stuff,
  • skillful,
  • knowing the score,
  • quick on the draw,
  • plethoric,
  • up to here,
  • decent,
  • familiar with,
  • assuasive,
  • cut out for,
  • well-qualified,
  • fit,
  • good enough,
  • no end,
  • able,
  • qualified,
  • capable,
  • sharp as a tack,
  • running over,
  • been there,
  • quick on trigger,
  • in the know,
  • safe,
  • well-organized,
  • vet,
  • enough,
  • good for.
  •plentiful (adjective)
  • more bumper,
  • in-finite,
  • well provided,
  • more well provided,
  • super abundant,
  • more well-provided,
  • most wellprovided,
  • more wellprovided,
  • more swarming,
  • most well provided,
  • most well-provided,
  • most swarming,
  • super-abundant,
  • most bumper,
  • in finite,
  • in exhaustible,
  • wellprovided.
  •powerful (adjective)
  • controlling,
  • forceful,
  • Strengthy,
  • pre-eminent,
  • all-powerful,
  • in control,
  • masterful,
  • mighty,
  • wieldy,
  • authoritative,
  • in the saddle,
  • commanding,
  • energetic,
  • strong,
  • vigorous.
  •professional (adjective)
  • more wellqualified,
  • more well qualified,
  • more well-qualified,
  • most well-qualified,
  • most wellqualified,
  • most well qualified,
  • wellqualified,
  • well qualified.
  •proficient (adjective)
  • more phenom,
  • most exercised,
  • more exercised,
  • whizest,
  • on the beam,
  • whizer,
  • more drilled,
  • most phenom,
  • on beam,
  • most drilled.
  •proper (adjective)
  • de-sired,
  • most desired,
  • more desired,
  • de sired.
  •qualified (adjective)
  • warhorse,
  • war-horse,
  • war horse,
  • disciplined.
  •quick (adjective)
  • most nimble-witted,
  • most nimble witted,
  • quickest,
  • sharp as tack,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • quick the draw,
  • quick on draw,
  • smart as whip,
  • more nimble witted,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • quick draw,
  • quick uptake,
  • nimble witted,
  • quick the trigger,
  • nimblewitted,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • quick on uptake,
  • quick the uptake.
  •responsible (adjective)
  • re liablest,
  • self reliant,
  • selfreliant,
  • re liabler,
  • re-liabler,
  • re-liablest,
  • re-liable.
  •safe (adjective)
  • non-poisonous,
  • non-toxic,
  • nontoxic,
  • riskless,
  • safest,
  • unadventurous,
  • unpolluted,
  • on safe side,
  • risk-free,
  • Uninjurious,
  • nonpoisonous,
  • innoxious,
  • SAFER.
  •satisfactory (adjective)
  • more a ok,
  • most a ok,
  • most assuasive,
  • more a-ok,
  • more fulfilling,
  • more assuasive,
  • most delighting,
  • de lighting,
  • most fulfilling,
  • a ok,
  • most appeasing,
  • de-lighting,
  • more delighting,
  • more aok,
  • more appeasing,
  • more assuaging,
  • most a-ok,
  • most assuaging,
  • most aok.
  •seasoned (adjective)
  • more battle scarred,
  • more battle-scarred,
  • most toughened,
  • more battlescarred,
  • most battlescarred,
  • most battle scarred,
  • more weathered,
  • battlescarred,
  • most weathered,
  • most battle-scarred,
  • more toughened,
  • battle scarred.
  •self-sufficient (adjective)
  • on one's own,
  • on own,
  • self-sustaining,
  • self-supported,
  • out for number one,
  • doing one's own thing,
  • Self-dependent,
  • self-sustained,
  • self-sufficing.
  •skillful (adjective)
  • ambidextrous,
  • adept,
  • tuned in,
  • expert,
  • facile,
  • crafty,
  • deft,
  • agile,
  • Sure-footed,
  • versatile,
  • adroit,
  • handy,
  • genius,
  • a hand at,
  • apt,
  • cunning,
  • crack,
  • really into,
  • dexterous,
  • artful,
  • wised up,
  • accomplished,
  • nimble,
  • talented.
  •sufficient (adjective)
  • aplenty,
  • unexceptionable.
  •trained (adjective)
  • most schooled,
  • more schooled.
  •versed (adjective)
  • most abreast,
  • more abreast.
  •wicked (adjective)
  • out-standing.

• n.

  •
  • O.K.,
  • reasonable,
  • tolerable,
  • all-right,
  • respectable,
  • fine.
  •
  • gifted,
  • transliterate,
  • sane,
  • accountable.
  •
  • appeal,
  • arraign,
  • allow,
  • bring before,
  • cite,
  • claim,
  • affirm,
  • bring,
  • call,
  • appear.
  •
  • excess.
  •
  • good.
  •adequate (noun)
  • fair,
  • acceptable.
  •competent (noun)
  • workmanlike.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic,
  • character trait,
  • means,
  • ability.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • knowledgeable.
  •
  • reliable.
  •
  • comfortable.
  •equal to
  • up to.
  •first class
  • excellent.
  •Other relevant words:
  • conniving,
  • spectacular,
  • tornado,
  • sodding,
  • skipper,
  • understanding,
  • silver,
  • get down,
  • frizzly,
  • slew,
  • captivate,
  • foretell,
  • strike,
  • goodish,
  • exponent,
  • take the air,
  • dent,
  • electrical energy,
  • adjudge,
  • come across,
  • scrape up,
  • arrest,
  • harmonic,
  • business sector,
  • squeeze,
  • social status,
  • fabric,
  • clutch bag,
  • calculative,
  • rife,
  • exactly,
  • perplex,
  • benefit,
  • einstein,
  • astir,
  • outstanding,
  • satisfying,
  • fool around,
  • overlooking,
  • healthy,
  • discreet,
  • carnival,
  • offer,
  • magnate,
  • lolly,
  • get ahead,
  • hotshot,
  • reasoned,
  • provide,
  • ripe,
  • properly,
  • canonic,
  • get by,
  • channel,
  • passel,
  • hearty,
  • profit,
  • confirm,
  • clutch pedal,
  • wakeless,
  • superintend,
  • one,
  • itinerary,
  • gaffer,
  • dispatch,
  • cognisant,
  • broadcast,
  • scrunch up,
  • speedy,
  • self-confident,
  • completed,
  • stager,
  • devote,
  • hardly,
  • crispy,
  • flop,
  • initiate,
  • come about,
  • character reference,
  • demeanour,
  • intellect,
  • economical,
  • generate,
  • ingathering,
  • ease up,
  • prolong,
  • secure,
  • self-directed,
  • of import,
  • technical,
  • pull in,
  • captain,
  • stipulate,
  • transmit,
  • up-and-coming,
  • office,
  • corroborate,
  • administration,
  • finish,
  • empowerment,
  • just now,
  • supervise,
  • fantabulous,
  • trip,
  • pixilated,
  • consummate,
  • equalise,
  • out-and-out,
  • call off,
  • commercial enterprise,
  • realized,
  • lofty,
  • overindulgence,
  • prepare,
  • accordant,
  • predict,
  • divine,
  • superordinate,
  • operable,
  • open,
  • veterinarian,
  • birdcall,
  • disgustful,
  • locomote,
  • reference,
  • prescribed,
  • wealthy,
  • master key,
  • ruined,
  • wreak,
  • distinctly,
  • excoriation,
  • move around,
  • lucre,
  • shopworn,
  • spreadhead,
  • potentiality,
  • witching,
  • surefooted,
  • fictitious character,
  • god almighty,
  • addition,
  • crevice,
  • communicate,
  • well-grounded,
  • occasion,
  • implement,
  • decease,
  • whizz,
  • rifle,
  • develop,
  • artisan,
  • hug drug,
  • dissipate,
  • concluded,
  • cede,
  • quite a little,
  • endure,
  • aged,
  • peer,
  • flip,
  • virginal,
  • spreading,
  • integral,
  • endeavour,
  • conniption,
  • level,
  • spell,
  • wrangle,
  • comely,
  • superstar,
  • befool,
  • fool away,
  • redundant,
  • major power,
  • downright,
  • give in,
  • of course,
  • silken,
  • primary,
  • convinced,
  • capital,
  • unholy,
  • try-on,
  • earn,
  • taking into custody,
  • inbuilt,
  • bed,
  • catch up with,
  • capture,
  • be known as,
  • expunge,
  • charming,
  • ascribable,
  • starting line,
  • older,
  • encounter,
  • sustain,
  • majuscule,
  • jolly,
  • aware,
  • free-enterprise,
  • tired,
  • brawny,
  • go-ahead,
  • counsel,
  • equalize,
  • concern,
  • ex-serviceman,
  • grow,
  • comfy,
  • bolide,
  • firm,
  • grade,
  • creator,
  • hollo,
  • military control,
  • ecstasy,
  • diffuse,
  • i,
  • banquet,
  • have,
  • rule-governed,
  • w. c. handy,
  • fashion,
  • dumbfound,
  • hand over,
  • break,
  • compass,
  • conk out,
  • involvement,
  • spread head,
  • finagle,
  • passable,
  • loaded,
  • working,
  • reach,
  • line of work,
  • paseo,
  • know what's what,
  • craftsman,
  • passably,
  • set out,
  • focussing,
  • accord,
  • summons,
  • magic,
  • shining,
  • legitimize,
  • bully,
  • flow,
  • die,
  • high,
  • mediocre,
  • jussive mood,
  • textile,
  • licenced,
  • muggins,
  • excise,
  • go away,
  • sassy,
  • entrance,
  • quality,
  • prevalent,
  • sate,
  • inviolable,
  • for certain,
  • predominant,
  • sacrifice,
  • magical,
  • dependable,
  • stiff,
  • outspread,
  • desirable,
  • smashing,
  • comparable,
  • coevals,
  • paste,
  • solicitation,
  • fail,
  • guileful,
  • seize,
  • imperative form,
  • amplification,
  • by all odds,
  • cool,
  • produce,
  • go game,
  • muckle,
  • aim,
  • consider,
  • admit,
  • angiotensin-converting enzyme,
  • fall in,
  • pull off,
  • monomania,
  • blend,
  • transcribe,
  • deport,
  • style,
  • correspond,
  • bossy,
  • redress,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • adequate to,
  • land,
  • rational,
  • private detective,
  • salutary,
  • bed covering,
  • feast,
  • glossy,
  • control,
  • terminated,
  • generative,
  • dinero,
  • pressman,
  • pass along,
  • alumnus,
  • know as,
  • convey,
  • nimiety,
  • likely,
  • boldface,
  • pop off,
  • mightiness,
  • dedicate,
  • ascensive,
  • magnificent,
  • telling,
  • auditory sensation,
  • stupefy,
  • moving in,
  • counterpane,
  • briny,
  • fret,
  • swan,
  • au courant,
  • harmonical,
  • main road,
  • locomotion,
  • clench,
  • manner,
  • enchant,
  • pitch,
  • learn,
  • fix,
  • duplicitous,
  • veterinary,
  • fencesitter,
  • cattle ranch,
  • birdsong,
  • legalise,
  • atoxic,
  • full-bodied,
  • higher-ranking,
  • converge,
  • cabbage,
  • accredited,
  • caller,
  • condom,
  • render,
  • dextrous,
  • force,
  • traveling,
  • croak,
  • brightly,
  • refer,
  • accommodate,
  • agreeable,
  • powerfulness,
  • liable,
  • elder,
  • imagination,
  • pay,
  • take place,
  • counselling,
  • legitimatise,
  • give birth,
  • burnished,
  • necromancer,
  • repelling,
  • fellowship,
  • doings,
  • rich,
  • acknowledgment,
  • fork up,
  • dressed,
  • in effect,
  • double-dealing,
  • shamus,
  • deal out,
  • call up,
  • scram,
  • persona,
  • right field,
  • paroxysm,
  • kale,
  • sally,
  • get going,
  • engrave,
  • touch,
  • in full,
  • pressure,
  • effected,
  • spate,
  • place,
  • star,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • strain,
  • hap,
  • inherent,
  • maker,
  • prompt,
  • voltage,
  • crucial,
  • mulct,
  • move over,
  • state,
  • counseling,
  • fissure,
  • implike,
  • maven,
  • wiz,
  • foregather,
  • springiness,
  • party,
  • substance,
  • act,
  • prima,
  • topic,
  • clams,
  • sly,
  • scrawl,
  • ahead,
  • static,
  • dominant allele,
  • potential drop,
  • dress,
  • single,
  • chicken feed,
  • draw,
  • needs,
  • flair,
  • calculating,
  • mickle,
  • stark,
  • be,
  • overspread,
  • straightaway,
  • mavin,
  • cause,
  • dig,
  • set up,
  • letter writer,
  • established,
  • realize,
  • lower limit,
  • salient,
  • pay back,
  • dish out,
  • striking,
  • antique,
  • deportment,
  • constituent,
  • threadbare,
  • to the full,
  • flowing,
  • overhear,
  • sherlock,
  • apprehend,
  • old-hat,
  • happen,
  • sublime,
  • surgical,
  • big,
  • subject,
  • midazolam,
  • intimacy,
  • lord,
  • altogether,
  • mass,
  • lead,
  • laissez-faire,
  • fritter,
  • pass,
  • wax,
  • employ,
  • power station,
  • agency,
  • role,
  • initiative,
  • very well,
  • put across,
  • tip over,
  • cleft,
  • pelf,
  • leadership,
  • perish,
  • intelligibly,
  • run into,
  • hold out,
  • add,
  • rectify,
  • frizzy,
  • two-faced,
  • yucky,
  • wrinkle,
  • well-heeled,
  • overtake,
  • tiptop,
  • fairish,
  • freelancer,
  • put out,
  • equip,
  • pay off,
  • winding,
  • founder,
  • case,
  • decriminalize,
  • get the hang,
  • fairly,
  • delicately,
  • hold close,
  • unhazardous,
  • principal,
  • legitimise,
  • king,
  • scissure,
  • amercement,
  • corpulent,
  • substantiate,
  • muscular,
  • fall out,
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  • self-confidence,
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  • potency,
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  • banal,
  • old-timer,
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  • okla.,
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  • oklahoma,
  • terse,
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  • professional person,
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  • enterprisingness,
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  • plenitude,
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  • get under one's skin,
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  • magician,
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  • comprehend,
  • newspaperman,
  • foul,
  • in spades,
  • free-lance,
  • sooner state,
  • lot,
  • sinful,
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  • accede,
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  • gimmick,
  • sire,
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  • citation,
  • carry off,
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  • honorable,
  • social occasion,
  • brainy,
  • bountiful,
  • fictional character,
  • congruent,
  • sceptered,
  • firmly,
  • moderately,
  • fresh,
  • come,
  • unchanging,
  • fain,
  • rightfield,
  • ticket,
  • heady,
  • free lance.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • competence,
  • deserved,
  • Habile,
  • independent,
  • merited,
  • important,
  • autocratic,
  • appreciable,
  • prestigious,
  • economic,
  • minimal,
  • authoritarian,
  • ranking,
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  • Hegemonic,
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Paraphrases for Competent:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    incompetent.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    proper, corresponding, authorised, specialised, correct, meritorious, valid, ably, satisfactory, clever, sufficient.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Abilities, Duties.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    enforcement.
  • Verb, past tense
    commissioned, mandated, entrusted, empowered.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    covers, controls, oversees, follows.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    proficient, knowledgeable, well-qualified, empowered, talented, competitive, able, authoritative, trained, well-informed, well-trained, respective, professional, skilful, appropriate, skilled, excellent, competence, applicable, accountable, qualified, adequate, legitimate, responsible.
  • Proper noun, singular
    appropriate, skilled, competence, qualified, responsible.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    skilful, competence, responsible.
  • Verb, past tense
    qualified, responsible.

Antonyms for Competent:

• adj.

  • able
    incapable, insufficient, inefficient, inadequate, unsuitable, incompetent, impotent, unskilled, unable, unqualified, inept.
  • Other antonyms:
    despotic, improper, unseasoned, arbitrary, feckless, unschooled, inapposite, new, unjustified, inapplicable, undue, unwarranted, biased, useless, inferior, unequal, irrelevant, unprepared, indefensible, untested, unfair, worthless, unmerited, unjustifiable, undeserved, untrained, incoherent, unreasonable, unjust, green, raw, illegitimate, partial, untried, inappropriate, disqualified, unsatisfactory, unlawful, Irrelative, beginning, poor, incorrect, inequitable.