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Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-ep-ti-tood, -tyood, ih-nep-
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛp tɪˌtud, -ˌtyud, ɪˈnɛp-



Definition of ineptitude

Origin :
  • 1610s, from French ineptitude, from Latin ineptitudo, noun of quality from ineptus "unsuitable, absurd" (see inept).
  • noun incapacity
Example sentences :
  • There's a similar touch of ineptitude (senility, perhaps) in the Memorabilia, ad fin.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • Clinton's position was difficult but he was saved by Lee's ineptitude.
  • Extract from : « Washington and his Comrades in Arms » by George Wrong
  • To them, in their then ineptitude, what I shall say now would have been unintelligible.
  • Extract from : « The Crack of Doom » by Robert Cromie
  • Besides, it roused his gorge to feel that here was an example of British ineptitude.
  • Extract from : « The Great Airship. » by F. S. Brereton
  • Gordon was simply sacrificed to ineptitude in high quarters at home.
  • Extract from : « An Autobiography » by Elizabeth Butler
  • There may be error in the result, but it comes from lack of data not from ineptitude in handling them.
  • Extract from : « Human Nature and Conduct » by John Dewey
  • People are often unkind, not from malignity, but from ineptitude.
  • Extract from : « More Pages from a Journal » by Mark Rutherford
  • Instinct does not hesitate in the face of this ineptitude: it seals up emptiness.
  • Extract from : « Bramble-bees and Others » by J. Henri Fabre
  • I repeated, struck by the ineptitude of the remark, and thinking I had heard imperfectly.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Men » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • But, fortunately, the realization of my ineptitude came uppermost.
  • Extract from : « A Top-Floor Idyl » by George van Schaick

Synonyms for ineptitude

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