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inept

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).

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Rhymes: -ɛpt

Adjective

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inept (comparative more inept, superlative most inept)

  1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
    As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
  2. Unfit; unsuitable.
    • 1954, W. K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon‎[1], University Press of Kentucky, page xiii:
      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 poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French inepte, from Latin ineptus.

Adjective

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inept m or n (feminine singular ineptă, masculine plural inepți, feminine and neuter plural inepte)

  1. inept

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite inept ineptă inepți inepte
definite ineptul inepta inepții ineptele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite inept inepte inepți inepte
definite ineptului ineptei inepților ineptelor
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