in·ept /ɪˈnɛpt/
(a.)不適當的,無能的,笨拙的
In·ept a.
1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. --Glanvill.
2. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.
To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. --Sir W. Hamilton.
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inept
adj 1: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose
style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing
style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more
inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy,
cumbersome, inapt, ill-chosen]
2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to
repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
[syn: feckless]
3: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an
inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those
disagreeable" [syn: tactless]