incompetent
Etymology
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Etymology
From French incompétent, from Late Latin incompetentem, from Latin incompetēns.
Pronunciation- (America) IPA: /ɪnˈkɒmpətənt/
incompetent
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- Synonyms: noncompetent, uncompetent, inept, Thesaurus:bad
- Antonyms: competent, capable, able, Thesaurus:skilled
- Hyponyms: (usually hyponymous) unskilled, unskillful, untalented, inexperienced, nonexperienced, unexperienced
- Near-synonyms: incapable, inable, unable
- Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.
- (medical, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- Near-synonyms: dysfunctional, nonfunctioning
- (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- French: incompétent
- German: inkompetent, unfähig
- Portuguese: incompetente
- Russian: некомпете́нтный
- Spanish: incompetente
- Russian: невменя́емый
incompetent (plural incompetents)
- A person who is incompetent.
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