Incompetent Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-kŏmpĭ-tənt
Lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. incapable
  2. inept
  3. inefficient
  4. bungling
  5. unskilled
  6. inadequate
  7. inapt
  8. unable
  9. inexpert
  10. unskillful
  11. clumsy
  12. unfit
  13. unqualified
  14. unequipped
  15. ineffectual
  16. disqualified
  17. floundering
  18. helpless
  19. impertinent
  20. unsuitable
  21. untrained
  22. maladroit
  23. inadmissible
  24. unhandy
  25. awkward
  26. uninitiated
  27. incapacitated
  28. raw
  29. inexperienced
  30. unadapted
  31. lacking
  32. not equal to
  33. amateurish
  34. non-compos
  35. unworkmanlike
  36. unsuited
  37. useless
  38. fumbling
  39. unequal to
Antonyms:
  1. able
  2. fit
  3. qualified
Totally incapable of doing a job
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unable
  2. unfit
  3. unskilled
  4. unqualified
Someone who is not competent to take effective action
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inaptitude
  2. incompetent person
  3. incapacitation
  4. incapacity
  5. incompetence

Words Related to Incompetent

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Incompetent Sentence Examples

  • The Parkside men in blue were noth­ing but a bunch of incompetent misfits who should all be fired, so continued the tirade.

  • Moylan, however, proved incompetent, and Mifflin resumed the office on the 1st of October.

  • But their kings were incompetent, their chiefs jealous and their tribes divided.

  • I have to say, the men seem to be incompetent buffoons.

  • The drug is contra-indicated in all cases where the heart is already beating too slowly; in aortic incompetence - where the prolongation of diastole increases the amount of the blood that regurgitates through the incompetent valve; in chronic Bright's disease and in fatty degeneration of the heart - since nothing can cause fat to become contractile.

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