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单词 inept
释义
inept
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnept/us
/ˌɪnˈept/
notskilledoreffective:
无能的；笨拙的；无效的
an ineptcomment/remark拙劣的评论／谈话
He was alwaysratherineptatsport.他一直不擅长体育运动。
He wascriticizedfor his inepthandlingof thesituation.他由于对这一局面处理不当而受到批评。
Dick wassociallyinept anduncomfortablein thepresenceof women.迪克不擅长社交，在女性面前显得局促。
Synonym
incompetent
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
bad at something
  • bad atI was overweight and bad at sport.
  • hopelessI’m completely hopeless in the kitchen.
  • uselessUKHe’s useless at maths.
  • rubbishUKShe’s a pretty rubbish singer, really.
  • incompetentThe rules have made it hard to remove incompetent teachers.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inability and awkwardness
  • accident-prone
  • adorkable
  • all thumbsidiom
  • amateurish
  • amateurishly
  • for toffeeidiom
  • fumble
  • functional illiteracy
  • gauche
  • geek
  • jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
  • klutzy
  • like a bull in a china shopidiom
  • lost
  • lubber
  • unable
  • uncoordinated
  • uneducable
  • unenterprising
  • unequal
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Related word

ineptitude
(Definition ofineptfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

inept| American Dictionary

inept
adjective
us
/ɪˈnept/
notskilledoreffective:
He was alwaysprettyinept atsports.

ineptitude

noun[U]us
/ɪˈnep·tɪˌtud/
political/social/economicineptitude
(Definition ofineptfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinept

inept
Some judges are inattentive or cognitivelyinept, for example.
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Theineptuse of the formal style would only result in ridicule, pomposity and ineffectiveness.
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Both areas had a history of economic decline presided over byineptand corrupt government.
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It moved considerably beyond punk music ofineptmusicians, three chords and 4:4 time.
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Consequently, caught between spiralling crime andineptpolice, the local population began to organize its own %!
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These accounts can be read also as a reaction against the prevailing views that women were ' weaker' and more 'inept' than their male counterparts.
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Sometimes it is simply employing inexperienced orineptworkers when skilled labour is in short supply.
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The ambitious program of government reform proposed in 1900, including roads, bridges, the telegraph, and modernization of the ports, was undermined byineptapplication.
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The colonists, no matter howinept, were the cause of the strife that every member of the community faced.
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Ordinary garden variety theistic mystics seem to be either disinterested in fame and power or else areineptat generating much interest in their experiences.
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The noun mismanagement, for instance, can be paraphrased as 'the condition of mismanaging' or as 'ineptmanagement'.
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Isineptcaregiving an expression of parent inadequacy or a reaction to prior experience with the child?
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We can see her frustration at being soineptat communication.
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Besides, men in this culture could not cook or tend to household needs and wereineptin the care of children.
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What will our children and their children think of ourineptinaction?
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