Adjective: incompetent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more incompetent |
| Superlative | most incompetent |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: incapable, inable, unable
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Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
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Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression. [2009 January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Gaza Boomerang”, in The New York Times:]
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The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.
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Near-synonyms: dysfunctional, nonfunctioning
Adjectives inflected like incompetent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from French incompétent, from Late Latin incompetentem, from Latin incompetēns, equivalent to in- + competent. See: French Adjectives '
incompétent', Latin Adjectives '
incompetēns'.