incompetent

[in·com·pe·tent]

If you are incompetent, you are not able to complete a task, like if you only ever made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches you would be incompetent in the kitchen of a fancy French restaurant.

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Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

Noun
someone who is not competent to take effective action

Adjective S.
not meeting requirements; "unequal to the demands put upon him"

Adjective
not qualified or suited for a purpose; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"

Adjective S.
not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"

Adjective S.
showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

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a.
Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

a.
Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.

a.
Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Incompetent

In*com"pe*tent , a. [L. incompetens: cf. F. incomp'82tent. See In- not, and Competent.] 1. Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

Incompetent to perform the duties of the place.

2. (Law) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.

Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation.

3. Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible. Syn. -- Incapable; unable; inadequate; insufficient; inefficient; disqualified; unfit; improper. -- Incompetent, Incapable. Incompetent is a relative term, denoting a want of the requisite qualifications for performing a given act, service, etc.; incapable is absolute in its meaning, denoting want of power, either natural or moral. We speak of a man as incompetent to a certain task, of an incompetent judge, etc. We say of an idiot that he is incapable of learning to read; and of a man distinguished for his honor, that he is incapable of a mean action.

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

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Usage Examples

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

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Other Usage Examples

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.