competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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penurious
adjective
- Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean
2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, petty, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See
give
- Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, poor, poverty-stricken.
Informal: broke, strapped.
Idioms:
hard up, on one's uppers. See
rich
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