Inept : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Inept	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inept adj not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" Synonym(s): awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" Synonym(s): feckless, inept revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" Synonym(s): inept, tactless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inept \Inept"\, a. [L. ineptus; prefix. in- not + aptus apt, fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. {Inapt}.] 1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. The Aristotelian philosophy is inept* for new discoveries. --Glanvill. 2. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. --Sir W. Hamilton.