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Synonyms for inept

Grammar : Adj
Spell : in-ept, ih-nept
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛpt, ɪˈnɛpt

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Définition of inept

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Old French inepte (14c.) or directly from Latin ineptus "unsuitable, improper, absurd, awkward, silly, tactless," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + aptus "apt" (see apt). Related: Ineptly; ineptness.
  • adj clumsy, unskilled; incompetent
  • adj not suitable; improper
Example sentences :
  • He is untrained, inept, but he will fill the place and draw the pay.
  • Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
  • And I've got another, too—'inept'—and that's what you are now, Patricia Kendall.
  • Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther
  • The visitors made a game of being awkward and inept, together.
  • Extract from : « The Planet Strappers » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
  • Those worthies must have had some motive, deeper than their avowed designs, for entrusting their defence to such 'inept hands.'
  • Extract from : « Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) » by Lady Anne Hamilton
  • The tradition is inept as it stands, but it has a basis of truth.
  • Extract from : « The New Gulliver and Other Stories » by Barry Pain
  • He is an inept critic who thrives by attaching his name to great reputations.
  • Extract from : « The Critical Game » by John Albert Macy
  • In Aristophanes, inept and inexperienced men are called kokkges.
  • Extract from : « Zoological Mythology (Volume II) » by Angelo de Gubernatis
  • His periods, more than once, have an inept and foreign smack.
  • Extract from : « A Book of Prefaces » by H. L. Mencken
  • The four-fingered hand is proved in this instance to have been useless and inept.
  • Extract from : « Here and Hereafter » by Barry Pain
  • Let him be content with one ideal rather than with the inept multitude.
  • Extract from : « The Heroic Enthusiast, Part II (Gli Eroici Furori) » by Giordano Bruno

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