competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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spare
verb
- To treat with inordinate gentleness and care: favor.
Idiom:
handle (or treat) with kid gloves. See
treat well
- To free from an obligation or duty: absolve, discharge, dispense, excuse, exempt, let off, relieve. See
free
- To use without wasting: conserve, economize, save. See
save
adjective
- Being more than is needed, desired, or appropriate: de trop, excess, extra, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus. See
excess
- Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, sparse, stingy, thin.
Slang: measly. See
big, excess
- Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean
2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, thin, twiggy, weedy.
Idioms:
all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See
fat
- Characterized by an economy of artistic expression: lean
2, tight. See
style
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