Crossword clues for inept
inept
- Not competent
- Like Wile E. Coyote
- Without any skill
- Liable to bungle
- Without skill
- Not capable
- Not at all skillful
- Like a lummox
- Very awkward
- Showing a lack of skill
- Prone to goofs
- Prone to bumbling
- Not graceful
- Not at all handy
- Not at all competent
- Like the Three Stooges
- Liable to screw up
- Less than competent
- Lacking dexterity
- Hardly sure-handed
- Far from proficient
- Far from handy
- Far from competent
- With no skill
- Unable to get the job done
- Totally unskilled
- Totally incompetent
- Totally helpless
- Prone to goof-ups
- Possessing two left feet
- Not very talented
- Not skillful at all
- Not able
- Likely to err
- Likely to bumble
- Likely to botch the job
- Like the Pointy-Haired Boss in "Dilbert"
- Like klutzes
- Like guitarist who's all thumbs
- Like Clouseau
- Like Charlie Brown
- Like a n00b, likely
- Liable to foul up
- Lacking any competence
- Just a total fuck-up
- Incapable of doing anything
- Hopelessly incapable
- Having no skill
- Harsh word in a performance review
- Hardly competent
- Far from skillful
- Displaying no dexterity
- Devoid of skill
- Completely unskilled
- Clumsy, incompetent
- Bad at one's job
- All thumbs, so to speak
- Not very competent
- Bumbling
- Lacking the knack
- Bungling
- Oafish
- Clueless
- Klutzy
- Handling badly
- Ham-fisted
- Feckless
- Like a sad sack
- Like a stumblebum
- Fumble-fingered
- Like a butterfingers
- Like the Keystone Kops
- Like Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther"
- Tending to bungle things
- Clumsy as an ox
- Like a schlimazel
- Spatter catcher
- Like Homer Simpson or Herman Munster
- Ham-handed
- Like a lubber
- Malapropos
- Opposite of 43 Across
- All thumbs (5)
- Awkward
- Maladroit
- Useless
- Unqualified
- Having two left feet
- Awkward writer reflected in it
- Clumsy writer held up by computer technology
- Clumsy pioneer regularly taking part
- Foolish to write about getting involved in it
- Fashionable pet hopelessly clumsy
- Awkward person originally caught in one trap
- Popular record, though initially awkward
- Popular record, but ultimately unskilful
- Popular old record, though initially unsuitable
- Bungling in record time
- Bad sex perverse writer's included
- Incompetent, clumsy
- Awkward, clumsy
- Useless writer is shown up in it
- Useless in record time
- Useless exercise by pioneer oddly forgotten
- Useless computers holding writer back
- Lacking skill
- Not up to the task
- Hardly handy
- Not up to it
- Lacking required skills
- Prone to bungling
- Not skillful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inept \In*ept"\, a. [L. ineptus; prefix. in- not + aptus apt, fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. Inapt.]
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Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries.
--Glanvill. -
Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.
To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept.
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence 2 unfit; unsuitable
WordNet
adj. not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, ill-chosen]
generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn: feckless]
revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" [syn: tactless]
Usage examples of "inept".
Neither Hera nor Mag realized that Asterion knew of their entire, inept plan.
Had he not restored order to the beleaguered city of Palmaris while the inept King remained in Ursal, no doubt riding his private stock of horses and women?
Yet he sensed Boget was genuinely trying to understand him and his inept shipmates.
And most of the losses, he discovered by wading through endless fiches on accident boards, had been due to inept pilotage.
The inescapable conclusion that could be drawn from the utterly inept defense of Coruscant was that Ysanne Isard wanted the New Republic to take the world.
A group of young people danced, giggling, to the rather inept piping of old Solor Pek Raumul.
With every step Pilau looked less inept and, gathering as if for a leap like a long-jumper, he brought his lance up, his long slender arm flashing forward, in a toss that sent his missile up in a perfect ballistic arc.
I missed the kids, even the slumpy, acned, socially inept high school kids.
There was no telling how long Virgie had been conducting her own Darwinian efforts to stamp out the socially inept gene pool.
ANGEL II Ere the first fruit thereof grow audible, Holding as hapless his dream of good guardianship, Jestingly, earnestly, shouting it serviceless, Tardy, inept, and uncouthly designed.
Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.
For every underqualified minority or woman, there were at least three white men who were equally inept: that was the true legacy of affirmative action, lowering the standards for everyone.
I was now frequenting the athenaeum reading rooms, where the very same loquacious gentleman whom I had encountered before, the mysterious Poe enthusiast, continued his regular appearances, reading the newspapers and gushing over the inept articles appearing in print on Edgar Poe.
If true, the Bedaux expedition must have been the most expensive and cumbersome cover operation ever mounted and Bedaux himself must go down as one of the most inept spies in history.
While the remaining Minids hooted at these inept brachiators, I went to Helen, lifted her to her feet, and led her back down the hillside to our tent.