incompetent
Meanings
Plural: incompetents
Noun
- someone who is not competent to take effective action
- A person who is incompetent.
Adjective
- legally not qualified or sufficient
- "incompetent witnesses"
- not qualified or suited for a purpose
- "an incompetent secret service"
- "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
Adjective Satellite
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not doing a good job
- "incompetent at chess"
- not meeting requirements
Adj
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French incompétent, from Late Latin incompetentem, from Latin incompetēns, equivalent to in- + competent.
Synonyms
abysmal, awful, bungling, chronic, clumsy, coarse, crap, crummy, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dreadful, foul, fumbling, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, inadequate, incapable, incompetent, incompetent person, inelegant, inept, inferior, intolerable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, noncompetent, odious, pathetic, peak, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, sloppy, terrible, uncompetent, unequal to, unfavorable, unqualified, unskilled
Antonyms
able, amateurish, bungling, capable, clumsy, competent, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert, maladroit, unable, unprofessional, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful
Scrabble Score: 17
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