hypercompetent

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English

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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ competent.

Adjective

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hypercompetent (comparative more hypercompetent, superlative most hypercompetent)

  1. Very highly competent.
    • 2009 September 13, Daphne Merkin, “Dame of the British Interior”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.