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inept

adjective

1 inept

Not elegant or graceful in expression:
— If the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?.

synonyms: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt.

Roget 645: useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative etc. 158; inadequate etc. (insufficient) 640; ... show more

Roget 158: powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, ... show more

Roget 499: unintelligent [Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head etc. 498; not bright etc. ... show more

2 inept

Generally incompetent and ineffectual:
— Inept handling of the account.

synonym: feckless.

Polish: niekompetentny

3 inept

Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse:
— An inept remark.

synonym: tactless.

Polish: nietaktowny


Moby thesaurus: apish, artless, asinine, awkward, bad, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless, buffoonish, bumbling, bungling, clumsy, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed ... show more.

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