inept

Collocations

7

1

(adj.)

VERBS

be, prove | become

ADV

very | quite | rather

politically, socially

His socially inept comments at the dinner party made everyone feel uncomfortable.

PREP

at

She felt inept at cooking when her first attempt at pasta turned into a mushy disaster.

Definitions

adj

1

Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.

As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.

2

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 failure may be.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse

tactless

adjective — generally incompetent and ineffectual

feckless

adjective — not elegant or graceful in expression

awkward
clumsy
cumbersome
inapt
ill-chosen

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.

Wiktionary

02

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 poet

Wiktionary

03

They are a bunch of inept and aggressive cretins..

Tatoeba · #1671056

04

I'm not usually this inept.

Tatoeba · #3728712

05

Tom is inept.

Tatoeba · #9241062

06

This cloth has the special ability to be invisible to the stupid and the inept.

Tatoeba · #9329848