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Another word for incompetent

incompetent Synonyms

incompetent

modif.

incapable, inefficient, inept, unskillful, inadequate, unfit, unskilled, unqualified, disqualified, bungling, inexpert, floundering, ineffectual, unsuitable, untrained, maladroit, unhandy, clumsy, awkward, uninitiated, raw, inexperienced, unequipped, unadapted, not equal to, amateurish; see also unable.

Antonyms able*, fit, qualified.

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Another word for incompetent

adjective

Lacking capability:
inadequate, incapable, unequal, unfit, unqualified. See ability, excess
Totally incapable of doing a job:
unable, unfit, unqualified. See ability
Lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results:
inapt, incapable, inefficient, inept, inexpert, unskilled, unskillful, unworkmanlike. See ability

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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.
In 1886, the year in which the Rand mines were discovered, President Kruger was by no means a popular man even among his own followers; as an administrator of internal affairs he had shown himself grossly incompetent, and it was only the specious success of his negotiations with the British government which had retained him any measure of support.
His incompetent leadership made it necessary for the rebels to invoke the help of France.

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