incompetent
adjective/ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/
/ɪnˈkɑːmpɪtənt/
- not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done
- an incompetent teacher
- his incompetent handling of the affair
- The prime minister was attacked as incompetent to lead.
Extra Examples- I know my boss considers me incompetent.
- a grossly incompetent piece of reporting
- She worked for years under an incompetent manager.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- consider somebody/something
- …
- criminally
- grossly
- hopelessly
- …
- at
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’.
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