incompetent

Meaning

Adj

1. Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
2. Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
3. Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
4. Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.

Noun

A person who is incompetent.

Opposite of

competent, capable, able, amateurish, bungling, clumsy, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert, maladroit, unable, unprofessional, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful

Synonyms

incapable

unable

unqualified

unskilled

unfit

ineffective

inefficient

clumsy

unskillful

inadequate

incompetent person

bungling

awkward

bungler

fumbling

good-for-nothing

ignorant

imperfect

inapt

ineffectual

inept

inexperienced

inexpert

stupid

useless

unequal to

unentitled

bad

👎

low experienced

lazy

lubberly

maladroit

powerless

powerlessness

rude

shiftless

stumblebum

mental deficiency

feckless

unauthorized

fail

uninformed

uninitiated

unpracticed

duffer

unseeded

unskilful

disabled

dilettante

unauthoritative

Translations

incompétent

incompetente

incompetent

incompetente

incompetente

inkompetent

unfähig

αναρμόδιος

onbekwaam

inepto

incapable

inepte

incapace

ανίκανος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈkɒmpətənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French incompétent, from Late Latin incompetentem, from Latin incompetēns, equivalent to in- + competent.