Thesaurus: inept

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1. a. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
2. a. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.
3. adj. not elegant or graceful in expression
4. adj. generally incompetent and ineffectual
5. adj. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
6. 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.
7. j:100 s. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse