Defenition of the word incompetent

• Defenition of the word incompetent

  • Lacking normally expected degree of ability.
  • showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
  • not meeting requirements; "unequal to the demands put upon him"
  • not qualified or suited for a purpose; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
  • someone who is not competent to take effective action
  • not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"
  • not meeting requirements
  • not qualified or suited for a purpose
  • legally not qualified or sufficient
  • not doing a good job
  • showing lack of skill or aptitude

Synonyms for the word incompetent

• • bungling
  • clumsy
  • fumbling
  • incapable
  • incompetent person
  • unequal to
  • unskilled

Similar words in the incompetent

• • bad
  • feckless
  • inadequate
  • incapable
  • ineffective
  • inefficient
  • inept
  • unqualified
  • unskilled
  • unworkmanlike

Hyponyms for the word incompetent

• • blunderer
  • botcher
  • bumbler
  • bungler
  • butcher
  • fuckup
  • fumbler
  • sad sack
  • slouch
  • stumbler

Hypernyms for the word incompetent

• • unskilled person

Antonyms for the word incompetent

• • competent

See other words

• • What is bumbling
  • The definition of difficulties
  • The interpretation of the word testing
  • What is meant by intractable
  • The lexical meaning fractious
  • The dictionary meaning of the word propagating
  • The grammatical meaning of the word not easy
  • Meaning of the word easier said than done
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word gauchest
  • The origin of the word klutzy
  • Synonym for the word inelegantly
  • Antonyms for the word all thumbs
  • Homonyms for the word propelled
  • Hyponyms for the word pointed
  • Holonyms for the word gawkily
  • Hypernyms for the word ungraceful
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word spiky
  • Translation of the word in other languages uncomfortably