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.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- splay,
- feckless,
- unallowable,
- uncool,
- found wanting,
- inproficient,
- not cut out for,
- blunderous,
- lubberly,
- useless,
- shiftless,
- not enough,
- weak,
- sidelined,
- no way,
- unadept,
- anticlimactic,
- clumsy,
- having two left feet,
- lightweight,
- can't make the grade,
- unproficient,
- awkward,
- having two left hands,
- gawkish,
- inefficacious,
- all thumbs,
- not able,
- ineligible,
- unfacile,
- not up to,
- unfitting,
- untalented,
- can't hack it,
- unfit,
- defeasible,
- inept,
- unprofessional,
- unable,
- undexterous,
- no go,
- unworkmanlike,
- ill timed,
- feeble,
- klutzy,
- can't cut it,
- ill-equipped,
- inadmissible,
- inadequate,
- butterfingered,
- inadept,
- Butter-fingered,
- unaccustomed,
- shooting blanks,
- not equal to,
- ill-shaped,
- niggardly,
- Unhandy,
- amateurish,
- unequipped,
- clownish,
- nonexpert,
- not effective,
- no good.
• 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 relevant words: (noun)
- failure,
- ne'er-do-well,
- bungler,
- unskilled person.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)
- ability.
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 (noun):
- 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.

How to use "Incompetent" in context?

If someone is incompetent, they are not able to do the task or job properly. This can happen for many reasons, such as having no experience or knowledge for the job, not following instructions, or being unorganised. This can lead to problems for the person or organisation, as they may not be able to do their job properly or meet deadlines.

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  incapable, inept.
Forward Entailment
- Adjective
  competent.
Independent
- Adjective
  inadequate, inappropriate, incapacitated, ineffective, powerless, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, useless.
Other Related
- Adjective
  impotent, inefficient, ineligible, unfit, unqualified.

Hypernym for Incompetent:

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

Hyponym for Incompetent:

n.
- person
  unskilled person.

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