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

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