incompetent

Plural: incompetents

Noun

• someone who is not competent to take effective action
• A person who is incompetent.

Adjective

• legally not qualified or sufficient
  • "incompetent witnesses"
• not qualified or suited for a purpose
  • "an incompetent secret service"
  • "the filming was hopeless incompetent"

Adjective Satellite

• showing lack of skill or aptitude
• not doing a good job
  • "incompetent at chess"
• not meeting requirements

Adj

• Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
• Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
• Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
• Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
• Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
• Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
• Not resistant to deformation or flow.

Examples

• Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
• The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.

Synonyms

bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incapable, incompetent person, unequal to, unqualified, unskilled, abysmal, awful, chronic, coarse, crap, crummy, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dreadful, foul, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inferior, intolerable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, noncompetent, odious, pathetic, peak, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, sloppy, terrible, uncompetent, unfavorable

Antonyms

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

Related Words

incompetence, incompetency

Anagrams of incompetent