inept

inept /i'nept/
  • tính từ
    • lạc lõng
    • dớ dẩn, vô lý
    • (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) không có khả năng thích hợp (với một nhiệm vụ...)

Xem thêm: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, ill-chosen, feckless, tactless



inept

Từ điển Collocation

inept adj.

VERBS be, prove | become

ADV. very | quite | rather | politically, socially It would be politically inept to cut these training programmes now.

PREP. at He was rather inept at word games.


Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • not elegant or graceful in expression; awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, ill-chosen

    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?

  • generally incompetent and ineffectual; feckless

    feckless attempts to repair the plumbing

    inept handling of the account

  • revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; tactless

    an inept remark

    it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: awkward clumsy cumbersome feckless ill-chosen inapt tactless