noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being inept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ineptitude
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.tjud/
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Canada, US: /ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.t(j)ud/
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Australian: /ɪˈnep.tə.t͡ʃʉd/
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noun
Meaning 2
An instance of being inept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: worthlessness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: fecklessness, groundlessness, idleness, paltriness, sorriness, valuelessness, shoddiness, trashiness, damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam, vanity, emptiness
noun
Meaning 4
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unskillfulness
Narrower terms: rustiness
History
Etymology
From Latin ineptitūdō. By surface analysis, inept + -itude.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: абсу́рдност (absúrdnost) — the quality of being inept
- Bulgarian: неуместност (neumestnost) — the quality of being inept
- Catalan: ineptitud — the quality of being inept
- Dutch: dwaasheid — the quality of being inept
- Finnish: avuttomuus — the quality of being inept
- Finnish: taitamattomuus — the quality of being inept
- Finnish: kyvyttömyys — the quality of being inept
- French: stupidité — the quality of being inept
- German: Unfähigkeit — the quality of being inept
- German: Untauglichkeit (unfitness) — the quality of being inept
- Greek: ανεπιτηδειότητα (anepitideiótita) — the quality of being inept
- Japanese: 無才 (musai) — the quality of being inept
- Japanese: 不向き (fumuki) — the quality of being inept
- Japanese: 不適 (futeki) — the quality of being inept
- Japanese: 不適度 (futekido) — the quality of being inept
- Japanese: 不適性 (futekisei) — the quality of being inept
- Manx: meehraaoilaght — the quality of being inept
- Russian: неспособность (nesposobnostʹ) — the quality of being inept
- Russian: негодность (negodnostʹ) — the quality of being inept
- Russian: никудышность (nikudyšnostʹ) — the quality of being inept
- Spanish: ineptitud — the quality of being inept
- Turkish: beceriksizlik — the quality of being inept
- Turkish: maharetsizlik — the quality of being inept
- Turkish: yeteneksizlik — the quality of being inept
- Turkish: kabiliyetsizlik — the quality of being inept