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hypercompetent

hypercompetent adjective: very highly competent.

Adjective

hypercompetent (comparative more hypercompetent, superlative most hypercompetent)

  1. Very highly competent.
    • In doing so, she stood for the writer not as a special case — a neurotic creature always on the verge of a nervous breakdown — but as a hypercompetent Everywoman adroitly running her life.2009 September 13, Daphne Merkin, “Dame of the British Interior”, in New York Times

Forms of hypercompetent

comparativemore hypercompetent
superlativemost hypercompetent

Origin of hypercompetent

From hyper- + competent.

Questions about hypercompetent

What does hypercompetent mean?
Hypercompetent means very highly competent.
What part of speech is hypercompetent?
Hypercompetent is an adjective.

Words near hypercompetent in the dictionary

  1. hypercompaction
  2. hypercompensation
  3. hypercompensations
  4. hypercompensatory
  5. hypercompetence
  6. hypercompetent
  7. hypercompetition
  8. hypercompetitive
  9. hypercompetitiveness
  10. hypercomplementemia
  11. hypercomplex

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