Definition of Ineptitude

1. Noun. Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.

Exact synonyms: Awkwardness, Clumsiness, Ineptness, Maladroitness, Slowness
Generic synonyms: Unskillfulness
Specialized synonyms: Rustiness
Derivative terms: Awkward, Awkward, Clumsy, Inept, Maladroit, Slow

2. Noun. Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful. "The drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"

Definition of Ineptitude

1. n. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.

Definition of Ineptitude

1. Noun. The quality of being inept. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ineptitude

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineptitude

ineliminable
ineloquence
ineloquent
ineloquently
ineluctability
ineluctable
ineluctably
ineludible
inembryonate
inenarrable
inenubilable
inenumerable
inept
inepter
ineptest
ineptitude
ineptitudes
ineptly
ineptness
ineptnesses
ineptocracies
ineptocracy
inequable
inequal
inequalitarian
inequalitarianism
inequalitarians
inequalities
inequality
inequally

Literary usage of Ineptitude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Junior High School by Leonard Vincent Koos (1920)
"A notable instance of its ineptitude would be the acceptance of the typical junior high school as the standard of reorganization. Described in terms of the ..."

2. The Soul of Ireland by William J. Lockington (1920)
"These joyous-hearted women have sweetened and made endurable by their presence that former monument of ineptitude, the poorhouse. The sound of their voices ..."

3. America and the Far Eastern Question: An Examination of Modern Phases of the by Thomas Franklin Millard (1909)
"... TO CHINA — OPPOSING INTRIGUES — PART PLAYED BY THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO CHINA — DIPLOMATIC Ineptitude— THE FLEET AT AMOY — EFFECTS OF THIS INCIDENT. ..."

4. My American Diary by Clare Sheridan (1922)
"... the indifferences of the bourgeois, the national spirit of Mexico, the planet we live in and the ineptitude of humans to adapt themselves to it. ..."

5. Sir Thomas Maitland, the Mastery of the Mediteranean: The Mastery of the by Walter Frewen Lord (1897)
"... Ineptitude —MAITLAND RESCUES MADRAS AND LECTURES THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON the south side of Cavendish Square there stands, looking towards Oxford Street, ..."

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