Meaning of INEPT
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- [adj] revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"
- [adj] generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
- [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?"
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| | Synonyms: | | awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, feckless, ill-chosen, inapt, incompetent, infelicitous, maladroit, tactless |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*ept"\, a. [L. ineptus; prefix. in- not + aptus apt,
fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. {Inapt}.]
1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new
discoveries. --Glanvill.
2. 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.
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