Inept

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  • adjective. Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy.
  • adjective. Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not apt, fit, or suitable; inapt.
  • Inappropriate; out of place; foolish.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
  • adjective. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence
  • adjective. Unfit; unsuitable
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
  • adjective. not elegant or graceful in expression
  • adjective. generally incompetent and ineffectual
    • Word Usage
    "I guess "inept" is one way to describe this handling of a national tragedy."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    adept  skillful  
    Equivalent
    incompetent  infelicitous  maladroit  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    accept  adept  crept  except  intercept  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    corrupt  flawed  impractical  inaccurate  inadequate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absurd  apish  artless  asinine  awkward  
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