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inept 音标拼音: [ɪn'ɛpt] a. 不适当的,无能的,笨拙的 不适当的,无能的,笨拙的 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?" [ synonym: { awkward}, { clumsy}, { cumbersome}, { inapt}, { inept}, { ill- chosen}] 2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; " feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; " inept handling of the account" [ synonym: { feckless}, { inept}] 3: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; " an inept remark"; " it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" [ synonym: { inept}, { tactless}] Inept \ In* ept"\, a. [ L. ineptus; prefix. in- not aptus apt, fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. { Inapt}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. [ 1913 Webster] The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. -- Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. [ 1913 Webster] To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. -- Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster] 178 Moby Thesaurus words for " inept": apish, artless, asinine, awkward, bad, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless, buffoonish, bumbling, bungling, clumsy, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gauche, goofy, graceless, gulled, half- assed, halting, ham- handed, headless, idiotic, ignorant, ill- adapted, ill- advised, ill- assorted, ill- chosen, ill- considered, ill- fitted, ill- judged, ill- matched, ill- sorted, ill- suited, ill- timed, imbecile, impolitic, improper, imprudent, inadept, inadmissible, inadvisable, inane, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inattentive, incapable, incapable of, incompetent, incongruous, indiscreet, ineffective, inefficient, inexpedient, inexpert, infatuated, infelicitous, inferior, injudicious, inopportune, insane, insensate, irrational, irrelevant, kooky, lackbrained, lean- minded, lean- witted, loony, lumbering, mad, mal a propos, maladjusted, maladroit, malapropos, maudlin, mediocre, mindless, misguided, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, moronic, not bright, nutty, of little brain, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, pea- brained, pedestrian, pin- brained, poor, reasonless, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, skill- less, slackminded, slackwitted, stupid, thoughtless, unable, unable to, unadapted, unadvised, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undeft, undesirable, undexterous, undextrous, undiplomatic, undue, unendowed, unfacile, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, ungainly, ungifted, unhandy, unhappy, unintellectual, unintelligent, unmeet, unproficient, unprofitable, unqualified, unreasoning, unseasonable, unseemly, unskilled, unskillful, unsuitable, unsuited, untalented, unthinking, untimely, unwise, unworkmanlike, wacky, wet, witless, wooden, wrong
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