TALENTLESS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

talentless

adjective

Definition of talentless

as in untalented

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Recent Examples of talentless The script, by Ed Solomon, treats the Sklar siblings as cardboard grotesques—heartless, talentless, united in their loathing of a father who loathes them right back. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 But that piece is destined to fail—not because the team is talentless, but because no story can carry that weight. — Rich Bornstein, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026 That need for validation is seen most immediately in Isabella but broadens out to Sam the director in the film whom Isabella accuses in a moment of catty lucidity of fearing that he will be exposed as a talentless coward with nothing to say…. — John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025

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Ted Knight portrayed the vain, untalented newscaster Ted Baxter and received six Emmy nominations for his role, winning once.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Six of his fellow starters on the 53-man squad had been considered so untalented in high school that the national ranking service Rivals had not even bothered rating them.

— Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026

Definition of untalented

Adjective

Her Volumnia bellows at her meek daughter-in-law, Virgilia (Justine Faith) as though reprimanding an incompetent private.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
One of the lasting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and our catastrophically incompetent response to it is the decrease in trust in public health experts and their advice.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of incompetent

Adjective

Salman Rushdie has declared that artificial intelligence has no role to play in literature, cinema or storytelling of any kind, dismissing the technology as fundamentally incapable of originality.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 July 2026
The statute does not require that the beneficiary be incapable of all meaningful activity.

— James Lange, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of incapable

Adjective

Mods weren’t available at the start, making the game less configurable and leaving players unable to fix obvious bugs, such as the hugely erratic traffic AI.

— Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Errors of execution and discipline forced by the relentlessness of a French team stripped of many of its leading players meant New Zealand was unable to secure its win until the final minutes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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