inept

Adjective Satellite

• not elegant or graceful in expression
  • "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
• generally incompetent and ineffectual
  • "inept handling of the account"
• revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
  • "an inept remark"

Adj

• Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
• Unfit; unsuitable.

Adjective

• Having no skill or aptitude; clumsy or inefficient.

Examples

• An INEPT player might leave too many openings for their Scrabble opponent.
• As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.

Synonyms

awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, feckless, ill-chosen, inapt, tactless

Antonyms

adept, apt, skillful

Related Words

INEPTLY