Synonyms for Incompetent:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • incompetent,
  • unqualified.
  •amateur (adjective)
  • nonprofessional,
  • primitive,
  • unskilled,
  • inexperienced,
  • amateur,
  • novice.
  •amateurish (adjective)
  • in expert,
  • in-expert,
  • in-experienced,
  • in-sipid,
  • in experienced,
  • bushleague,
  • in-competent,
  • un-trained,
  • in sipid,
  • in competent,
  • un trained,
  • insipid.
  •awkward (adjective)
  • un gainlier,
  • un-handier,
  • un-graceful,
  • un gainliest,
  • un skillful,
  • more floundering,
  • un-handy,
  • un handiest,
  • un-coordinated,
  • green,
  • un graceful,
  • stumbling,
  • most butterfingers,
  • un handier,
  • un-gainliest,
  • un-gainlier,
  • un polished,
  • un-refined,
  • un-polished,
  • unhandiest,
  • un handy,
  • most floundering,
  • oafish,
  • un gainly,
  • un coordinated,
  • un refined,
  • most blundering,
  • more blundering,
  • more stumbling,
  • unhandier,
  • more butterfingers,
  • un-skillful,
  • un couth,
  • un-handiest,
  • un-couth,
  • most stumbling,
  • un-gainly.
  •clumsy (adjective)
  • more ill-shaped,
  • un-wieldier,
  • most illshaped,
  • heavyhanded,
  • more ill shaped,
  • hamhanded,
  • more illshaped,
  • un dexterous,
  • more untalented,
  • lumpish,
  • most ham handed,
  • ponderous,
  • more gawkish,
  • un adept,
  • un-talented,
  • most gawkish,
  • un-easier,
  • un-easiest,
  • ham-handed,
  • heavy handed,
  • illshaped,
  • un easiest,
  • most ill-shaped,
  • more blunderous,
  • more undexterous,
  • more ham handed,
  • more unadept,
  • most ill shaped,
  • un easy,
  • more ham-handed,
  • un-easy,
  • un easier,
  • ham handed,
  • most butterfingered,
  • in-elegant,
  • more hamhanded,
  • more lubberly,
  • in elegant,
  • most blunderous,
  • un tactful,
  • splayest,
  • un wieldy,
  • most ham-handed,
  • most hamhanded,
  • un talented,
  • most lubberly,
  • un-wieldy,
  • more clownish,
  • un-tactful,
  • most undexterous,
  • un-wieldiest,
  • un-dexterous,
  • un wieldiest,
  • most clownish,
  • ill shaped,
  • more butterfingered,
  • most unadept,
  • uneasy,
  • most untalented,
  • un wieldier,
  • un-adept,
  • splayer.
  •feckless (adjective)
  • meaningless,
  • uncareful.
  •feeble (adjective)
  • fainter,
  • in firm,
  • out of gas,
  • fragile,
  • lame,
  • sapless,
  • wimpy,
  • Strengthless,
  • enervated.
  •foolish (adjective)
  • light in the head.
  •impotent (adjective)
  • incapable,
  • forceless,
  • powerless,
  • Infecund,
  • disabled,
  • impotent,
  • sterile.
  •inadequate (adjective)
  • glitcher,
  • in-apter,
  • in apter,
  • un-equal,
  • in commensurate,
  • in adequate,
  • in-appreciable,
  • too little,
  • in-complete,
  • most niggardly,
  • in-aptest,
  • more niggardly,
  • un equal,
  • most stinted,
  • in complete,
  • inconsiderable,
  • junkest,
  • in-considerable,
  • in appreciable,
  • in-commensurate,
  • junker,
  • incomplete,
  • glitchest,
  • most lemon,
  • more lemon,
  • un qualified,
  • un-qualified,
  • in considerable,
  • minus,
  • more stinted,
  • lemon,
  • in aptest,
  • in-adequate.
  •inadmissible (adjective)
  • unwelcome,
  • un seemly,
  • un-becoming,
  • un becoming,
  • un desirable,
  • illfavored,
  • un satisfactory,
  • un seemlier,
  • un acceptable,
  • most unallowable,
  • un-suited,
  • un-allowable,
  • un-desirable,
  • in-appropriate,
  • un allowable,
  • illtimed,
  • ill favored,
  • un-seemlier,
  • un-welcome,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un suited,
  • ill-timed,
  • un seemliest,
  • un reasonable,
  • more unallowable,
  • un-wanted,
  • in appropriate,
  • un welcome,
  • un-acceptable,
  • un-seemliest,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • objectionable,
  • irrelevant,
  • in-admissible,
  • un wanted,
  • in admissible.
  •incapable (adjective)
  • in-proficient,
  • more uncool,
  • more disqualified,
  • un-cool,
  • most disqualified,
  • in capable,
  • not to,
  • more unequipped,
  • un cool,
  • most inproficient,
  • dis qualified,
  • most unequipped,
  • more inproficient,
  • most uncool,
  • in proficient,
  • un-equipped,
  • in-capable,
  • un equipped,
  • losing,
  • dis-qualified.
  •ineffective (adjective)
  • most slack-spined,
  • more slackspined,
  • slack spined,
  • in effective,
  • most slack spined,
  • more emasculate,
  • slack-spined,
  • most slackspined,
  • more slack spined,
  • in-effective,
  • most emasculate,
  • slackspined,
  • more slack-spined.
  •ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
  • in vertebrate,
  • anti-climactic,
  • more neutralized,
  • in nocuous,
  • un-profitable,
  • in-vertebrate,
  • most anticlimactic,
  • null and void,
  • in-operative,
  • in operative,
  • more ineffective,
  • more defeasible,
  • anti climactic,
  • in-effectual,
  • un availing,
  • un-availing,
  • un profitable,
  • un successful,
  • most invertebrate,
  • most neutralized,
  • more invertebrate,
  • most defeasible,
  • in-nocuous,
  • invertebrate,
  • de-feasible,
  • in effectual,
  • more anticlimactic,
  • de feasible,
  • un-successful,
  • null void.
  •inefficacious (adjective)
  • in efficacious,
  • in-efficacious.
  •inefficient (adjective)
  • in-efficient,
  • halfbaked,
  • most improficient,
  • slovenly,
  • in efficient,
  • dis organized,
  • un prepared,
  • more improficient,
  • dis-organized,
  • cant hack it,
  • improficient,
  • un-prepared,
  • half baked.
  •inept (adjective)
  • most inadept,
  • more unfacile,
  • un-aptest,
  • most unproficient,
  • more loser,
  • in-adept,
  • un proficient,
  • most unfacile,
  • un-facile,
  • most loser,
  • un facile,
  • un-proficient,
  • in adept,
  • more unproficient,
  • un apter,
  • un aptest,
  • un-apter,
  • more inadept.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • out of,
  • too little too late,
  • unample,
  • unfitted,
  • insufficient,
  • short of.
  •inutile (adjective)
  • in utile,
  • in-utile.
  •lightweight (adjective)
  • Imponderous,
  • of no account,
  • featherweight.
  •shiftless (adjective)
  • laggard,
  • unambitious,
  • unindustrious,
  • unenergetic,
  • directionless.
  •unable (adjective)
  • more hogtied,
  • most hog tied,
  • more impuissant,
  • un-abler,
  • most hogtied,
  • cant make the grade,
  • out commission,
  • most hog-tied,
  • un abler,
  • most impuissant,
  • cant cut it,
  • no can do,
  • more sidelined,
  • most sidelined,
  • more hog tied,
  • un-ablest,
  • more hog-tied,
  • un ablest,
  • can't make grade,
  • cant make grade.
  •unaccustomed (adjective)
  • unversed in,
  • unfamiliar with,
  • unpracticed,
  • unused to,
  • not given to,
  • Newcome,
  • too green,
  • not used to.
  •unfit (adjective)
  • more butter-fingered,
  • most illequipped,
  • illequipped,
  • more illequipped,
  • more amateur,
  • most amateur,
  • more butter fingered,
  • un-fit,
  • un fit,
  • most butter-fingered,
  • most ill equipped,
  • most ill-equipped,
  • ill equipped,
  • more ill-equipped,
  • most butter fingered,
  • more ill equipped,
  • butter fingered.
  •unprofessional (adjective)
  • non-expert,
  • un-professional,
  • most nonexpert,
  • un professional,
  • most unfitting,
  • un worthier,
  • non expert,
  • un-worthiest,
  • un-worthier,
  • un worthy,
  • un-ethical,
  • un-fitting,
  • more unfitting,
  • un fitting,
  • un worthiest,
  • un ethical,
  • more nonexpert.
  •unskilled (adjective)
  • un skilled,
  • un-schooled,
  • un-developed,
  • un-skilled,
  • un educated,
  • un schooled,
  • un-educated.
  •unskillful (adjective)
  • unpolished,
  • unskillful,
  • crude,
  • Skill-less.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un usable,
  • un-usable.
  •unworkmanlike (adjective)
  • un workmanlike,
  • un-workmanlike.
  •useless (adjective)
  • scrapper,
  • unusuable,
  • profitless,
  • unfunctional,
  • of no use,
  • nonfunctional,
  • Unpurposed,
  • counterproductive,
  • non-functional,
  • counter-productive.
  •weak (adjective)
  • weakest.

• n.

  •
  • awful,
  • no-good,
  • excess,
  • someone couldn't do something if they tried,
  • helpless.
  •bungler (noun)
  • Muddler,
  • fool,
  • foul-up,
  • duffer,
  • bumbler,
  • incompetents,
  • fumblers,
  • muddlers,
  • slouch,
  • mismanagers,
  • harebrain,
  • foulup,
  • fools,
  • goofball,
  • spoilers,
  • Mismanager,
  • fumbler,
  • featherbrain,
  • duffers,
  • spoiler,
  • addlebrain,
  • goof off,
  • muffer,
  • bumblers,
  • klutz,
  • clumsy oaf.
  •bungling (noun)
  • bungling.
  •failure (noun)
  • might-have-been,
  • has-been,
  • lumpy,
  • underachiever,
  • born losers,
  • bankrupts,
  • born loser,
  • nonperformer,
  • loser,
  • insolvents,
  • defaulter,
  • has-beens,
  • washout,
  • underachievers,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • defaulters.
  •fumbling (noun)
  • fumbling.
  •incapable (noun)
  • ineffectual,
  • raw,
  • disqualified,
  • unadapted,
  • unsuitable,
  • uninitiated,
  • Floundering,
  • untrained.
  •incompetent (noun)
  • bad,
  • inefficient,
  • incompetent person,
  • unequal to,
  • ineffective.
  •ne'er-do-well (noun)
  • neer-do-well,
  • neer do well,
  • worthlesses,
  • shiftlesses,
  • ne'er do well.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • powerful,
  • incapable of,
  • predominant,
  • ill-prepared,
  • cowboy,
  • maladroit,
  • unemployable.
  •
  • poor,
  • rusty,
  • unequal,
  • impractical,
  • hopeless,
  • ragged.
  •
  • badly.
  •idiot
  • Mooncalf.
  •ineffective
  • pointless.
  •inexperienced
  • new,
  • young.
  •phony
  • stuffed shirt.
  •Other relevant words:
  • perfunctory,
  • neglectful,
  • blunder,
  • blunderer,
  • unteachable,
  • unfortunate,
  • disability,
  • infelicitous,
  • yellow,
  • Untractable,
  • tame,
  • retiring,
  • inappropriate,
  • imperfectly,
  • botch,
  • Unaccomplished,
  • lily-livered,
  • unwieldy,
  • flop,
  • ineffectively,
  • timorous,
  • petty,
  • failing,
  • non-starter,
  • inexpedient,
  • heavy-handed,
  • futile,
  • pusillanimous,
  • incommensurate,
  • cumbersome,
  • inoperative,
  • feebly,
  • sloppily,
  • pathetically,
  • untried,
  • maladjusted,
  • insufficiently,
  • swayback,
  • low quality,
  • severely,
  • fuckup,
  • unassertive,
  • scantily,
  • sloppy,
  • weaken,
  • superfluous,
  • incapacitated,
  • Inhabile,
  • faintly,
  • impotency,
  • immature,
  • blank cartridge,
  • bunglesome,
  • unendowed,
  • powerlessness,
  • wishy-washy,
  • inutile,
  • unseasoned,
  • ox,
  • invalid,
  • bloomer,
  • Quackish,
  • irremediable,
  • disarm,
  • inattentive,
  • incompetently,
  • timid,
  • subnormal,
  • absently,
  • chicken,
  • Impuissant,
  • out of practice,
  • stale,
  • stupid,
  • wasted,
  • weakly,
  • inactive,
  • unsettle,
  • inefficiently,
  • giddy,
  • Inservient,
  • cowardly,
  • ungainly,
  • stumblebum,
  • dispensable,
  • Ungifted,
  • shabbily,
  • greenhorn,
  • redundant,
  • mindless,
  • inadequately,
  • little,
  • uneconomic,
  • unfitness,
  • namby-pamby,
  • Hamstrung,
  • butcher,
  • nonentity,
  • dud,
  • mediocre,
  • bush-league,
  • bungle,
  • gawky,
  • seriously,
  • of no avail,
  • Unmeet,
  • defectively,
  • also-ran,
  • armless,
  • gelding,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • scrimp,
  • disqualify,
  • wasteful,
  • improperly,
  • imperfect,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • vanity,
  • futilely,
  • Feeble-minded,
  • inexpert,
  • castrato,
  • tactless,
  • mediocrity,
  • deficient,
  • swaybacked,
  • inexpertly,
  • jackleg,
  • wanting,
  • simple,
  • defective,
  • spineless,
  • foolish,
  • uneconomical,
  • unproductive,
  • unsuited,
  • unentitled,
  • base,
  • slackly,
  • gauche,
  • unavailable,
  • ludicrously,
  • ineffectually,
  • unnerve,
  • unavailing,
  • neglect,
  • deadhead,
  • small,
  • clunky,
  • inapposite,
  • abortive,
  • talentless,
  • oaf,
  • effete,
  • helplessness,
  • out to lunch,
  • use,
  • Unprovided,
  • untutored,
  • ill-furnished,
  • bootless,
  • artless,
  • handless,
  • dull,
  • unsuccessfully,
  • shoddily,
  • out of it,
  • shoddy,
  • disable,
  • unpractised,
  • meek,
  • unsuccessful,
  • unskilful,
  • mean,
  • boner,
  • frustrate,
  • indispose,
  • unarmed,
  • craven,
  • botcher,
  • sad sack,
  • poorly,
  • economize,
  • crippled,
  • eunuch,
  • faze,
  • unadjusted,
  • impotence,
  • rudely,
  • retarded,
  • awfully,
  • incapacitate,
  • unadvisable,
  • unprofitable,
  • enervate,
  • ill-fitted,
  • Incapably,
  • absurdly,
  • trivial,
  • second-rate,
  • not have it,
  • save,
  • lead balloon,
  • shabby,
  • weakling,
  • dead duck,
  • tripper,
  • irresolute,
  • worthless,
  • unschooled,
  • unbecomingly,
  • unsatisfying,
  • Unapt,
  • ill-chosen,
  • unusable,
  • lacking,
  • wrongly,
  • bumbling,
  • crudely,
  • preposterously,
  • fizzle,
  • inapt,
  • inferior,
  • lummox,
  • silly,
  • incorrectly,
  • ham-fisted,
  • left-handed,
  • backward,
  • unproductively,
  • worthlessly,
  • inconsiderate,
  • slaughterer,
  • skimp,
  • ridiculously.

Paraphrases for Incompetent:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    inept, incapable.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    competent.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    ineffective, inappropriate, inadequate, incapacitated, powerless, unsuitable, unsatisfactory, useless.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    inefficient, impotent, unfit, unqualified, ineligible.

Antonyms for Incompetent:

• adj.

  • all
    competent.
  • unskillful, unable
    effective, efficient, proficient, experienced, able, expert, qualified, skilled, capable, adept, skillful, useful, strong, dexterous.
  • Other antonyms:
    prepared, trained, seasoned, versatile, good, all-around, ready, overqualified, protean, equal, workmanlike, adequate.

Hypernym for Incompetent:

• n.

  • person
    bungler, stumbler, blunderer, butcher, fumbler, bumbler, fuckup, botcher, slouch, sad sack.

Hyponym for Incompetent:

• n.

  • person
    unskilled person.