INAPTITUDE Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

inaptitude

noun

Definition of inaptitude

as in disqualification

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Noun

Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns supported Danhausen in his no disqualification match against JD McDonagh.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026
Tiffany Stratton qualified by defeating Jacy Jayne, while Jade Cargill advanced via disqualification against Nia Jax after Charlotte Flair's interference.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of disqualification

Noun

Yet despite the faction’s inability to win in purple or red districts, democratic socialists enjoy a net favorability of 17 points among Democratic voters nationwide, compared with just 4 points for Democratic members of Congress.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
That's big news, as one of McCray's biggest problems has been his inability to match up physically against some of the tackles in the SEC.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of inability

Noun

Those forms are not pertinent to the finding of incompetency and are therefore subject to the open records law, Ziegler and Bradley wrote.

— Scott Bauer, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Federal agents have descended upon the home of Cindy Rodriguez Singh, the North Texas mom who was recently sent to a state hospital after an incompetency ruling in the murder of her young son.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 12 May 2026

Definition of incompetency

Noun

My embodiment—paralysis—is conjured when trying to describe an inability, a lack, an incapacity.

— Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
Under Missouri law, most mail ballots must be notarized before they can be counted, though voters casting absentee ballots for certain reasons, including incapacity, are exempt from that requirement.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026

Definition of incapacity

Noun

He was revisited by a vague feeling of physical ineptitude that’d haunted him since childhood; failing to throw the ball properly on sports day at primary school, his father watching.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Adding to the increasingly humiliating position in which the administration has put itself, the mayor got called out by Stonepeak for ineptitude.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026

Definition of ineptitude

Noun

The Iran and Gaza wars have thrown that absence and European strategic impotence into sharp relief.

— Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026
So imagine his feelings of impotence and rage when the boy is killed anyway, by an impossible arrow that finds its target through a tiny crack in a door and then, apparently, vanishes.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 May 2026

Definition of impotence

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