Competent patriarch Synonyms

Definitions for Competent


  • (adjective) having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance
  • (adjective) being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong
  • (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient

Definitions for Patriarch


  • (noun) the male head of family or tribe
  • (noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
  • (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)