inept
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inept
- /ɪˈnɛpt/ Canada, UK, US
- /ɪˈnept/ Australia
Rhymes with -ɛpt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).
adjective more inept · most inept
- Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence. As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
- Unfit; unsuitable. The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failu
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: incompetent, tactless, feckless, infelicitous, inapt, maladroit, clumsy, cumbersome, awkward, ill-chosen, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, useless, pointless, inadequate
Translations
Every language
adj not able to do something
| Español | inepto, incapaz |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 不向きな fumuki na, 苦手な nigate na, 弱い yowai |
| 中文 | 無能的 /无能的 wúnéng de, 笨拙的 bènzhuō de |
| हिन्दी | कुकृय kukŕy |
| Português | inapto, incapaz, incompetente |
| Français | inepte |
| Deutsch | unfähig |
| Italiano | inetto |
| Ελληνικά | ανίκανος aníkanos, άχρηστος áchristos |
| Română | incompetent, incapabil |
| Русский | неуме́лый neumélyj, неспосо́бный nesposóbnyj |
adj unfit, unsuitable
| 日本語 | 不向きな fumuki na, 不適な futeki na, 不適当な futekitō na |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 不適當的 /不适当的 bùshìdàng de |
| Deutsch | ungeeignet, untauglich |
| Русский | него́дный negódnyj |
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title = {inept},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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