英和和英

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈkɒmpətənt/
• ハイフネーション: in‧com‧pe‧tent

形容詞

incompetent (comparative more incompetent, superlative most incompetent)

1. Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.

   Synonyms: noncompetent, uncompetent, inept, ineffective; see also Thesaurus:bad

   Antonyms: competent, capable, able; see also Thesaurus:skilled

   Hyponyms: (usually hyponymous) unskilled, unskillful, untalented, inexperienced, nonexperienced, unexperienced

   Near-synonyms: incapable, inable, unable

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

   • 2009 January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Gaza Boomerang”, in The New York Times‎:

     Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression.

2. 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.

3. (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.

   Near-synonyms: dysfunctional, nonfunctioning

4. (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.

派生語

関連する語

名詞

incompetent (plural incompetents)

1. A person who is incompetent.
   • 1915, Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams, Modern Warfare, page 11:

     But besides these incompetents, there was always a train of camp followers, —women who followed the camp, beggars, and criminals, whose number was often greater than the number of fighting soldiers.

   • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 34:

     "Lies!" said the tallest of the sons of Ivaldi. "I wouldn't trust those fumble-fingered incompetents to shoe a horse."