Incompetent - English meaning

adjective

Done in an unskilful or inept way.

Usage examples:

Her amateurish interviewing technique

adjective

Performed without much skill

Usage examples:

The movie drags along, made even worse by amateurish acting.

adjective

Having no skill, or showing no skill

Usage examples:

Their website looks amateurish.

adjective

Making or characterized by stupid or careless mistakes; clumsy.

Usage examples:

Both her parents are supportive, if a bit blundering

verb

Make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily.

Usage examples:

He knew he'd blundered

adjective

Often making serious mistakes, usually because of not taking care

Usage examples:

You blundering idiot! what do you think you're doing?, a blundering firebomber is being hunted by p…

noun

The action or fact of carrying out a task clumsily or incompetently.

Usage examples:

He was heavily criticized for his bungling of the case

adjective

Making or characterized by many clumsy mistakes.

Usage examples:

The work of a bungling amateur

verb

Carry out (a task) clumsily or incompetently.

Usage examples:

He bungled his first attempt to manage a group of professional players

adjective

Awkward in movement or in handling things.

Usage examples:

The cold made his fingers clumsy

adjective

Awkward in movement or manner

Usage examples:

I’m so clumsy – i keep dropping things., he subsequently wrote a letter to the magazine in an admit…

adjective

A clumsy person often has accidents because they do not behave in a careful, controlled way

Usage examples:

That's the third glass you've smashed this week - you're so clumsy!

adjective

Not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient.

Usage examples:

This diet is deficient in vitamin b

adjective

Lacking or not good enough

Usage examples:

A diet that is deficient in protein is harmful to children.

adjective

Not having enough of

Usage examples:

Deficient in a diet deficient in vitamin d may cause the disease rickets.

adjective

Lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.

Usage examples:

These labels prove to be wholly inadequate

adjective

Too low in quality or too small in amount; not enough

Usage examples:

An inadequate income/offer, i feel inadequate when i talk to miranda about art because she knows so…

adjective

Too small in amount

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Inadequate funds/incomes/pensions too many of us are retiring on hopelessly inadequate incomes., th…

adjective

Not producing any significant or desired effect.

Usage examples:

The legal sanctions against oil spills are virtually ineffective

adjective

Not producing the results that are wanted; not effective

Usage examples:

Those pills were ineffective – i still have a headache.

adjective

Not producing the effects or results that are wanted

Usage examples:

They made an ineffective attempt to get the rules changed., prove ineffective the army has proved i…

adjective

Not achieving maximum productivity; wasting or failing to make the best use of time or resources.

Usage examples:

Inefficient transport systems

Not producing desired results; wasteful

adjective

Wasting time, money, energy, or other valuable possessions or qualities

Usage examples:

Many of their industries are hopelessly inefficient., she promised to end government inefficiency.,…

adjective

Having or showing no skill; clumsy.

Usage examples:

The referee's inept handling of the match

adjective

Not skilled or effective

Usage examples:

He was always pretty inept at sports., political/social/economic ineptitude

adjective

Having or showing a lack of skill or knowledge.

Usage examples:

An inexpert transcription from the real music

adjective

Having little skill

Usage examples:

She had made an inexpert attempt to repair the car.

adjective

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

Usage examples:

Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country

noun

A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

Usage examples:

Her social and intellectual inferiors

adjective

Not good, or not as good as someone or something else

Usage examples:

Inferior to these products are inferior to those we bought last year., she cited cases in which wom…

adjective

Below the usual or required standard.

Usage examples:

Substandard housing

adjective

Below a satisfactory standard

Usage examples:

There’s plenty of substandard child care available.

adjective

Below or contrary to the standards expected in a particular profession.

Usage examples:

A report on unprofessional conduct

adjective

Not showing the standard of behavior or skills that are expected of a person in a skilled job

Usage examples:

Dressing like that was very unprofessional of him.

adjective

Not showing the standard of behaviour or work that is expected of a person doing their job

Usage examples:

Unprofessional behaviour/conduct two employees have been suspended after allegations of unprofessio…

adjective

Unskilful, inexpert.

noun

An unproficient person.

adjective

Not having or showing skill.

Usage examples:

Though kind and willing, she was unskilful

adjective

Not good at doing something, or lacking skills generally

Usage examples:

Unfortunately, they made a couple of unskilful moves that played directly into the hands of their o…

adjective

Not having or requiring special skill or training.

Usage examples:

Unskilled manual workers

adjective

(of people) without any particular work skills, or (of work) not needing any particular skills

Usage examples:

Unskilled workers may lose their jobs.

adjective

Used to describe people who have no particular work skills

Usage examples:

Unskilled employees/labourers/workers businesses such as restaurants are dependent on lower-paid, u…