inept, tactless
(adjective) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; āan inept remarkā; āit was tactless to bring up those disagreeableā
feckless, inept
(adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual; āfeckless attempts to repair the plumbingā; āinept handling of the accountā
awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen
(adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression; āan awkward prose styleā; āa clumsy apologyā; āhis cumbersome writing styleā; āif the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?ā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
inept (comparative more inept, superlative most inept)
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
Unfit; unsuitable.
• adept
• skillful
• nepit
Source: Wiktionary
In*ept", a. Etym: [L. ineptus; prefix. in- not + aptus apt, fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. Inapt.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
