incompetent

Speech parts

1. incompetent - Noun

2. incompetent - Adjective

3. incompetent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.

Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

incapable unable inadequate unfit clumsy fumbling unskilled unqualified bungling weak insufficient ineffective inefficient inexperienced deficient
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Antonyms

competent pro immaculate hep able good
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Hypernyms

unskilled person

Hyponyms

butcher slouch fuckup blunderer sad sack bungler

Phrases with the word

be incompetent incompetent laborer incompetent worker be incompetent at something hospital for mentally incompetent people be incompetent at

Examples

Violence,” came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. Laurence J. Peter

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Edith Sitwell

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. Martin Van Buren

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese

Close letter words and terms

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