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- Dictionaryinept/ɪˈnɛpt/
adjective
- 1. having or showing no skill; clumsy: "the referee's inept handling of the match"
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inept at He was always rather inept at sport. inept handling He was criticized for his inept handling of the situation . socially inept Dick was socially inept and uncomfortable in the presence of women.
The meaning of INEPT is generally incompetent : bungling. How to use inept in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Inept.
inept at He was always rather inept at sports. inept handling He was criticized for his inept handling of the situation . socially inept Dick was socially inept and uncomfortable in the presence of women.
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). It would be politically inept to cut these training programmes now. He made some particularly inept remarks. Definition of inept adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
If you say that someone is inept, you are criticizing them because they do something with a complete lack of skill. He was inept and lacked the intelligence to govern. American English : inept / ɪˈnɛpt /
When you're inept, you don't know what you're doing or just can't get it done. Someone inept is bumbling, clueless, and ineffective. Inept people are dumb or clueless; they don't understand things.
inept - not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
Inept definition: without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit. See examples of INEPT used in a sentence.
inept is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ineptus.
He was completely inept at sports. He made an inept attempt to apologize. It was ineptly done.
