Difference between Adequate and Competent

ADEQUATE vs COMPETENT: NOUN

Adequate for the purpose
Properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.
Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
Legally qualified or sufficient

Acceptable
To attain equality with; equal.
About average
To make equal or adequate.
Equal to requirement or occasion; commensurate; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit: as, means adequate to the object; an adequate comparison.

In physical geography, of a stream, capable of transporting fragments of a given size.
In geology, having sufficient firmness and strength to transmit pressure to other strata or to lift an overlying burden, as a rock or stratum.
Answering all requirements; suitable; fit; sufficient or adequate for the purpose: as, competent supplies of food and clothing; an army competent to the defense of the kingdom.
In law, having legal capacity or qualification: as, a competent judge or court; a competent witness.
Rightfully or lawfully belonging; pertaining by right; permissible: followed by to.
Fitted, etc. See qualified.
Adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
Having ability or capacity; properly qualified: as, a competent bookkeeper.

Ample, Proper, Inadequate, Insufficient, Fair to middling, Equal to, Adequate to, Up to, Capable, Passable, Competent, Decent, Enough, Satisfactory, Sufficient

Proficient, Empowered, Competency, Skilled, Sane, Competence, Knowledgeable, Incompetent, Able, Workmanlike, Efficient, Adequate, Effective, Capable, Qualified

Ample, Proper, Inadequate, Insufficient, Fair to middling, Equal to, Adequate to, Up to, Capable, Passable, Competent, Decent, Enough, Satisfactory, Sufficient

Proficient, Empowered, Competency, Skilled, Sane, Competence, Knowledgeable, Incompetent, Able, Workmanlike, Efficient, Adequate, Effective, Capable, Qualified

The record is adequate to address these issues.
Commercially adequate access to public streets and ways?
Torres has not proved to be statistically adequate.
ERISA with the lack of adequate fiduciary standards.
Ensuring that adequate internal controls are in place.
Proposed Adequate Assurance of payment for postpetition services, and established procedures for resolving requests for additional adequate assurance of payment.
If it is determined that a BOS is not available at all or is not adequate, the customer should obtain an adequate BOS.
Adequate provision should be made to assemble in adequate quantities expertise that enables the court to respond to multiple protection and assistance needs.
However, the airport already has adequate capacity and will continue to have adequate capacity in the foreseeable future.
Other methods are not adequate and cannot be made adequate.

Sufficient staff are competent in operating the system.
CDD information available to competent authorities on request.
Definition Client is mentally competent when giving consent.
Are changes reviewed and authorized by competent personnel?
Trustee may apply to a court of competent.
Structural elements will be designed and constructed by competent professionals, and certified or approved by competent authorities or professionals.
These previously expressed preferences by adolescents competent to consent or the parents of minors not competent to consent must be respected by researchers.
Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that makes less competent people overestimate their abilities and more competent people underestimate them.
Interestingly, there is some discrepancy between the GMC guidance relating to competent children as opposed to competent adults.
Competent, professionally run organisations have a better chance to attract competent people.