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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ɪˈnɛpt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɪˈnept/
• 韻: -ɛpt

形容詞

inept (comparative more inept, superlative most inept)

1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.

   As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.

2. Unfit; unsuitable.
   • 1954, W. K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon‎, University Press of Kentucky, page xiii:

     The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.

反意語

• apt
• adept
• skillful

派生語

アナグラム

• nepit