inept

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈnɛpt/    美 /ɪˈnɛpt/|/ɪˈnept/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
    — As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
  2. Unfit; unsuitable.
    — The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.

词形变化

more inept comparative most inept superlative

词汇关系

反义词
apt adept skillful
衍生词
ept ineptitude ineptly ineptness

词源

Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).
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