/ɪˈnɛpt/, /ɪˈnept/
OriginBorrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).
- Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
“As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.”
- Unfit; unsuitable.
“The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poet”
Formsmore inept(comparative) · most inept(superlative)