What is another word for incompetent?
728 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɪnkˈɒmpɪtənt], [ ɪnkˈɒmpɪtənt], [ ɪ_n_k_ˈɒ_m_p_ɪ_t_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for incompetent:- all (adjective)
- amateur (adjective)
- amateurish (adjective)
- awkward (adjective)
- clumsy (adjective)
- feckless (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- foolish (adjective)
- impotent (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- inadmissible (adjective)
- incapable (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inefficient (adjective)
- inept (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- lightweight (adjective)
- shiftless (adjective)
- unable (adjective)
- unaccustomed (adjective)
- unfit (adjective)
- unprofessional (adjective)
- unskilled (adjective)
- unskillful (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- unworkmanlike (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- bungler (noun)
- bungling (noun)
- failure (noun)
- fumbling (noun)
- incapable (noun)
- incompetent (noun)
- ne'er-do-well (noun)
- other synonyms
- idiot
- ineffective
- inexperienced
- phony
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Incompetent:
adj.
•all (adjective) •amateur (adjective)- nonprofessional,
- primitive,
- unskilled,
- inexperienced,
- amateur,
- novice.
- in expert,
- in-expert,
- in-experienced,
- in-sipid,
- in experienced,
- bushleague,
- in-competent,
- un-trained,
- in sipid,
- in competent,
- un trained,
- insipid.
- 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.
- 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.
- fainter,
- in firm,
- out of gas,
- fragile,
- lame,
- sapless,
- wimpy,
- Strengthless,
- enervated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- in-efficient,
- halfbaked,
- most improficient,
- slovenly,
- in efficient,
- dis organized,
- un prepared,
- more improficient,
- dis-organized,
- cant hack it,
- improficient,
- un-prepared,
- half baked.
- 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.
- 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.
- unversed in,
- unfamiliar with,
- unpracticed,
- unused to,
- not given to,
- Newcome,
- too green,
- not used to.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
•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.
Other synonyms:
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- badly.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
competent.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
ineffective, inappropriate, inadequate, incapacitated, powerless, unsuitable, unsatisfactory, useless.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
inefficient, impotent, unfit, unqualified, ineligible.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Incompetent:
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adj.
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all
competent.
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unskillful, unable
effective, efficient, proficient, experienced, able, expert, qualified, skilled, capable, adept, skillful, useful, strong, dexterous.
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Other antonyms:
prepared, trained, seasoned, versatile, good, all-around, ready, overqualified, protean, equal, workmanlike, adequate.
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Hypernym for Incompetent:
n.
Hyponym for Incompetent:
n.
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person
unskilled person.
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person