noun
- Someone who is not competent to take effective action.
- synonyms: incompetent person
adjective
- Legally not qualified or sufficient.
- usage: "a wife is usually considered unqualified to testify against her husband"; "incompetent witnesses"
- synonyms: unqualified
- Not qualified or suited for a purpose.
- usage: "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
- Showing lack of skill or aptitude.
- usage: "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
- Not doing a good job.
- usage: "incompetent at chess"
- synonyms: unskilled
- Not meeting requirements.
- usage: "unequal to the demands put upon him"
- synonyms: incapable, unequal to
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