Definition of Incompetent

1. Noun. Someone who is not competent to take effective action.

Exact synonyms: Incompetent Person
Generic synonyms: Unskilled Person
Specialized synonyms: Blunderer, Botcher, Bumbler, Bungler, Butcher, Fuckup, Fumbler, Sad Sack, Stumbler, Slouch

2. Adjective. Legally not qualified or sufficient. "Incompetent witnesses"
Exact synonyms: Unqualified
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Antonyms: Competent

3. Adjective. Not qualified or suited for a purpose. "The filming was hopeless incompetent"

4. Adjective. Showing lack of skill or aptitude. "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
Exact synonyms: Bungling, Clumsy, Fumbling
Similar to: Unskilled
Derivative terms: Clumsiness, Incompetence, Incompetency

5. Adjective. Not doing a good job. "Incompetent at chess"
Exact synonyms: Unskilled
Similar to: Bad
Derivative terms: Incompetence, Incompetency

6. Adjective. Not meeting requirements. "Unequal to the demands put upon him"
Exact synonyms: Incapable, Unequal To
Similar to: Inadequate, Unequal
Derivative terms: Incapability, Incompetence

Definition of Incompetent

1. a. Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

Definition of Incompetent

1. Adjective. Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability, Northern Victorian Irrigation Renewal Project like see ombudsmans report. ¹

2. Adjective. Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired. ¹

3. Noun. A person who is incompetent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incompetent

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompetent

incompatibilism
incompatibilist
incompatibilists
incompatibilities
incompatibility
incompatible
incompatible blood transfusion reaction
incompatibleness
incompatibles
incompatibly
incompetant cervix
incompetence
incompetences
incompetencies
incompetency
incompetent (current term)
incompetent cervical os
incompetent cervix
incompetent person
incompetently
incompetents
incompetibility
incompetible
incompleatly
incompletable
incomplete
incomplete abortion
incomplete achromatopsia
incomplete agglutinin
incomplete alexia

Literary usage of Incompetent

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The declarations of the plaintiff made after the accident, were incompetent, not being pars rei gestae. Evidence substantially the same was held to be ..."

2. Business Law: A Working Manual of Every-day Law by Thomas Conyngton (1920)
"Sales to Persons incompetent to Contract The rules which have been laid down under the subject of contracts (§38) with regard to the contracts of certain ..."

3. Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, on Various Points of English Jurisprudence by George Chalmers (1814)
"... by incompetent authority, to an incompetent adviser. The reference, therefore, to such- a counsellor, and his report on such acts of assembly, were, ..."

4. A Compendium of the Law of Evidence by Thomas Peake (1822)
"Of Persons incompetent by Reason vf their Relation to the Parties. IN the preceding sections, our attention was con- . £h. Ill $. 4. fined to persons whose ..."

5. Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal and by Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Jacob Louis Kadushin (1915)
"A minor is incompetent as a witness although he may be clever, ... An insane person is incompetent to testify. An insane person is not only one who goes ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of ...by Joseph Henry Dart, William Barber, William Robert Sheldon by Joseph Henry Dart, William Barber, William Robert Sheldon (1888)
"CHAPTER I. Chapter I. AS TO RESTRICTIONS ON THE GENERAL CAPACITY TO BVT OR SELL REAL ESTATE. n тт TI- 7 l incompetent to sell. 1. ..."

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