inept
adjective/ɪˈnept/
/ɪˈnept/
- acting or done with no skill
- She was left feeling inept and inadequate.
- He's intelligent but socially inept (= not good at relating to people socially).
- an inept remark
- It would be politically inept to cut these training programmes now.
- He made some particularly inept remarks.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- rather
- completely
- intellectually
- …
- at
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not apt, unsuitable’): from Latin ineptus, from in- ‘not’ + aptus ‘fitted’, (past participle of apere ‘fasten’).
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