Definitions for incompetent
ɪnˈkɒm pɪ təntin·com·pe·tent

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. incompetent, incompetent personadjective

   someone who is not competent to take effective action

2. incompetent, unqualifiedadjective

   legally not qualified or sufficient

   "a wife is usually considered unqualified to testify against her husband"; "incompetent witnesses"

3. incompetentadjective

   not qualified or suited for a purpose

   "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"

4. bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetentadjective

   showing lack of skill or aptitude

   "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

5. incompetent, unskilledadjective

   not doing a good job

   "incompetent at chess"

6. incapable, incompetent, unequal to(p)adjective

   not meeting requirements

   "unequal to the demands put upon him"

GCIDERate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Incompetentadjective

   (Law) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence; a mentally defective person is incompetent to care for himself and requires a legal guardian.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incompetentnoun

   A person who is incompetent.

2. incompetentadjective

   Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability, Northern Victorian Irrigation Renewal Project like see ombudsmans report.

   Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.

3. incompetentadjective

   Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.

   The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incompetentadjective

   Not suitable; not adequate; not proportionate. In the civil law it denotes some defect of right to do any thing.

   Etymology: in and competent.

   Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Francis Bacon, H. VII.

   Every speck does not blind a man, nor does every infirmity make one unable to discern, or incompetent to reprove the grosser faults of others. Government of the Tongue.

   I thank you for the commission you have given me: how I have acquitted myself of it, must be left to the opinion of the world, in spight of any protestation which I can enter against the present age, as incompetent or corrupt judges. Dryden.

   Laymen, with equal advantages of parts, are not the most incompetent judges of sacred things. Dryden.

   An equal attraction on all sides of all matter, is just equal to no attraction at all; and by this means all the motion in the universe must proceed from external impulse alone, which is an incompetent cause for the formation of a world. Richard Bentley.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incompetent

   Incompetence is the inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incompetent

   Incompetent refers to a lack of ability, skill, qualification, or capacity to effectively perform a job, task, or role. It can also reference someone who is unable to make decisions or manage personal affairs, often due to mental deficiency or lack of maturity. Furthermore, in legal terms, it can mean that a person is unable to grasp the nature and consequences of a decision and thus is unfit to participate in a legal proceeding or contract.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Incompetentadjective

   not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit

2. Incompetentadjective

   wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence

3. Incompetentadjective

   not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible

4. Etymology: [L. incompetens: cf. F. incomptent. See In- not, and Competent.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incompetent

   in-kom′pe-tent, adj. wanting adequate powers: wanting the proper legal qualifications: insufficient.—ns. Incom′petence, Incom′petency.—adv. Incom′petently.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incompetent

   Incapable; unfit; unequal. No officer, be his situation what it may, can be said to be competent to command who is not only willing and able to follow orders himself, but will likewise see them strictly adhered to by others; whose mind is not superior to partialities, and whose judgment is not equal to discern real merit from ignorant assumption.

How to pronounce incompetent?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of incompetent in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of incompetent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of incompetent in a Sentence

1. H. L. Mencken:

   God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

2. Lawrence Kubie:

   Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

3. Donald Trump:

   So we had the most secure border we've ever had… And then it's all gone in one instant. At first, I thought it was gross incompetence, but now it's incompetent policy. They really want to have an open border.

4. Evelle J. Younger:

   An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

5. Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon:

   Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=incompetent
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=incompetent
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Incompetent
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=incompetent
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompetent
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incompetent
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=incompetent
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html