Inept

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not apt or fitting; inappropriate.
  • adj. Displaying a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; foolish: an inept remark.
  • adj. Bungling or clumsy; incompetent: inept handling of the account.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence
  • adj. Unfit; unsuitable
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
  • adj. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not apt, fit, or suitable; inapt.
  • Inappropriate; out of place; foolish.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
  • adj. not elegant or graceful in expression
  • adj. generally incompetent and ineffectual
    • Equivalent
    maladroit    infelicitous    incompetent   
    Antonym
    skillful    adept   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unfit    unsuitable    improper    unbecoming    silly    useless    nonsensical    absurd    foolish    awkward   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    accept    adept    crept    except    intercept    kept    leaped    leapt    overslept    prepped   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    incompetent    ineffective    insensitive    inappropriate    unable    corrupt    impractical    inadequate    irresponsible    unreliable   
     
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