incompetent

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

in·com·pe·tent [incompetent incompetents] adjective, noun BrE [ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt] NAmE [ɪnˈkɑːmpɪtənt]
adjective
not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done
•an incompetent teacher
•his incompetent handling of the affair
•The Prime Minister was attacked as incompetent to lead.
Opp: ↑competent

Word Origin:
late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’.

Thesaurus:
incompetent adj.
•an incompetent manager
inadequate • • poor • • inept • |especially spoken bad • |informal rotten • • useless •
Opp: competent
a/an incompetent/poor/bad/rotten/useless teacher/driver
a/an inadequate/bad/rotten/useless mother/father/parent
hopelessly incompetent/inadequate/inept

Example Bank:
•I know my boss considers me incompetent.
•a grossly incompetent piece of reporting
•the medical treatment of legally incompetent patients
•She worked for years under an incompetent manager.
•They criticized his incompetent handling of the affair.
Derived Word: ↑incompetently
 
noun
a person who does not have the skill or ability to do their job or a task as it should be done

Word Origin:
late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’.

Example Bank:
•He's a hopeless incompetent.
•The whole thing is being led by a bunch of incompetents.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  incapable, unequal to(p), unskilled, bungling, clumsy, fumbling, unqualified, incompetent person