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inept
Synonyms and Antonyms of inept
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lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job
accomplished, ace, adept, consummate, crack, experienced, practiced (also practised), seasoned, veteran, virtuoso
all-around (also all-round), protean, versatile
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not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation
out of place, out of the way
fortunate, opportune, seasonable, timely
applicable, apposite, apropos, apt, germane, material, pat, pointed, relative, relevant
compatible, congenial, harmonious
allowed, authorized, permitted
approved, endorsed (also indorsed), kosher, licensed, sanctioned
abetted, encouraged, promoted, supported
acceptable, adequate, all right, decent, fine, OK (or okay), passable, respectable, satisfactory, tolerable
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showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation)
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showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
airheaded, birdbrained, boobish, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, gormless [chiefly British], idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, nonrational, surd, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak
out to lunch
Synonym Discussion of inept
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- periods of awkward silence
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- a clumsy mechanic
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- a maladroit politician
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- a hopelessly inept defense attorney
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- felt gauche and unsophisticated at formal parties
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