What are the antonyms for INCOMPETENT?
- ready, trained, skilled, effective, versatile, adequate, useful, efficient, equal, overqualified, qualified, dexterous, proficient, prepared, all-around, able, adept, skillful, experienced, workmanlike, seasoned, good, capable, strong, expert, protean, competent.
Synonyms for INCOMPETENT
- handless,
- klutzy,
- wimpy,
- maladroit,
- no good,
- incapable of,
- impotency,
- splay,
- ineffectual,
- nonprofessional,
- eunuch,
- jackleg,
- foulup,
- unaccustomed,
- meaningless,
- sterile,
- unschooled,
- clunky,
- having two left hands,
- crudely,
- incompetently,
- predominant,
- unambitious,
- fumbler,
- unskilled person,
- small,
- dud,
- insufficiently,
- deadhead,
- Mismanager,
- novice,
- fools,
- unfitted,
- washout,
- futilely,
- tripper,
- having two left feet,
- not given to,
- harebrain,
- rudely,
- enervated,
- underachiever,
- duffer,
- not cut out for,
- mean,
- ill-furnished,
- no way,
- shoddy,
- unseasoned,
- mediocrity,
- blunder,
- Mooncalf,
- greenhorn,
- unadvisable,
- armless,
- unallowable,
- unskilled,
- Unapt,
- stale,
- cowardly,
- ragged,
- in firm,
- helplessness,
- not able,
- bumblers,
- bankrupts,
- no-good,
- inept,
- inadequately,
- spoilers,
- untrained,
- useless,
- goof off,
- inadept,
- featherbrain,
- might-have-been,
- impotent,
- preposterously,
- lead balloon,
- insolvents,
- unfunctional,
- slouch,
- namby-pamby,
- irresolute,
- unwieldy,
- counter-productive,
- crippled,
- defaulters,
- unsuitable,
- unsuccessfully,
- gawky,
- inconsiderate,
- unemployable,
- dead duck,
- impotence,
- blunderer,
- powerless,
- unadjusted,
- dispensable,
- loser,
- lily-livered,
- inferior,
- sloppily,
- gauche,
- incorrectly,
- flop,
- effete,
- stumblebum,
- green,
- scantily,
- tame,
- bungling,
- Unmeet,
- lame,
- unavailable,
- clownish,
- defectively,
- sad sack,
- out of it,
- of no use,
- pointless,
- born loser,
- bloomer,
- profitless,
- ox,
- silly,
- mismanagers,
- insufficient,
- inutile,
- ill-fitted,
- failing,
- redundant,
- unused to,
- inproficient,
- undexterous,
- bungle,
- klutz,
- Infecund,
- excess,
- bungler,
- ne'er-do-well,
- unfit,
- not equal to,
- wrongly,
- uninitiated,
- fragile,
- out of gas,
- disability,
- imperfectly,
- disarm,
- defeasible,
- counterproductive,
- forceless,
- not used to,
- cumbersome,
- unadapted,
- yellow,
- dull,
- unusuable,
- bad,
- deficient,
- economize,
- sapless,
- unsatisfying,
- can't make the grade,
- bootless,
- fumblers,
- unequipped,
- Incapably,
- severely,
- shabbily,
- has-beens,
- addlebrain,
- incommensurate,
- can't hack it,
- Inhabile,
- unusable,
- left-handed,
- skimp,
- uncareful,
- ill timed,
- scrapper,
- untalented,
- unteachable,
- uneconomic,
- out of practice,
- foul-up,
- superfluous,
- unproductively,
- inoperative,
- swayback,
- underachievers,
- inefficient,
- short of,
- awfully,
- petty,
- incapacitate,
- nonfunctional,
- Chicken-hearted,
- clumsy,
- not up to,
- muffer,
- gawkish,
- seriously,
- rusty,
- unentitled,
- scrimp,
- save,
- lacking,
- incomplete,
- Unpurposed,
- unassertive,
- inappropriate,
- unfitting,
- poorly,
- heavy-handed,
- unnerve,
- lightweight,
- powerful,
- nonexpert,
- artless,
- slackly,
- maladjusted,
- Impuissant,
- helpless,
- weakling,
- incompetents,
- inattentive,
- Unaccomplished,
- too little too late,
- vanity,
- inexpedient,
- unfamiliar with,
- Strengthless,
- weak,
- unproficient,
- timid,
- blank cartridge,
- Butter-fingered,
- swaybacked,
- mediocre,
- fumbling,
- has-been,
- bunglesome,
- of no account,
- disable,
- base,
- inexpertly,
- wishy-washy,
- Imponderous,
- ineligible,
- weakly,
- enervate,
- Ungifted,
- Muddler,
- out of,
- Hamstrung,
- not effective,
- Unprovided,
- unavailing,
- unpracticed,
- pusillanimous,
- worthless,
- ridiculously,
- inapt,
- slaughterer,
- Floundering,
- faintly,
- indispose,
- weakest,
- inadmissible,
- Skill-less,
- goofball,
- unsatisfactory,
- meek,
- non-starter,
- Inservient,
- shabby,
- timorous,
- unversed in,
- defaulter,
- pathetically,
- unable,
- use,
- non-functional,
- unfacile,
- too little,
- nonperformer,
- ham-handed,
- abortive,
- no go,
- wanting,
- defective,
- Quackish,
- unfitness,
- fizzle,
- butcher,
- foolish,
- unenergetic,
- disqualify,
- sidelined,
- inactive,
- ill-chosen,
- not have it,
- awful,
- featherweight,
- young,
- shoddily,
- uneconomical,
- untutored,
- not enough,
- tactless,
- someone couldn't do something if they tried,
- craven,
- incompetent person,
- invalid,
- backward,
- unpolished,
- subnormal,
- light in the head,
- all thumbs,
- unequal to,
- poor,
- butterfingered,
- absurdly,
- unbecomingly,
- Newcome,
- directionless,
- bumbling,
- second-rate,
- spineless,
- unprofessional,
- neglectful,
- unindustrious,
- weaken,
- low quality,
- unprofitable,
- badly,
- lemon,
- laggard,
- imperfect,
- stuffed shirt,
- duffers,
- ineffectually,
- niggardly,
- unadept,
- found wanting,
- oaf,
- wasted,
- clumsy oaf,
- good-for-nothing,
- born losers,
- of no avail,
- Untractable,
- unsettle,
- failure,
- unskillful,
- hopeless,
- fainter,
- worthlessly,
- raw,
- simple,
- botcher,
- ill-prepared,
- trivial,
- little,
- untried,
- ludicrously,
- ineffective,
- bush-league,
- unarmed,
- castrato,
- unfortunate,
- unendowed,
- unsuited,
- sloppy,
- blunderous,
- crude,
- new,
- wasteful,
- retiring,
- too green,
- giddy,
- faze,
- perfunctory,
- awkward,
- unqualified,
- inexpert,
- improperly,
- inefficacious,
- also-ran,
- lummox,
- unskilful,
- feckless,
- ability,
- lumpy,
- chicken,
- irremediable,
- inapposite,
- out to lunch,
- inefficiently,
- incompetent,
- fool,
- botch,
- impractical,
- Feeble-minded,
- ill-equipped,
- disabled,
- ineffectively,
- bumbler,
- immature,
- talentless,
- ill-shaped,
- futile,
- incapable,
- unpractised,
- unequal,
- muddlers,
- neglect,
- inexperienced,
- unproductive,
- cowboy,
- inadequate,
- can't cut it,
- gelding,
- unworkmanlike,
- uncool,
- amateurish,
- feebly,
- nonentity,
- mindless,
- primitive,
- Unhandy,
- absently,
- ham-fisted,
- shooting blanks,
- frustrate,
- anticlimactic,
- lubberly,
- infelicitous,
- spoiler,
- powerlessness,
- disqualified,
- unample,
- ungainly,
- unsuccessful,
- incapacitated,
- feeble,
- shiftless.
Usage Examples for INCOMPETENT
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He wanted to see the Americans successful in the country, but he did not want to see all that happen under the leadership of Washington; and if he could put an obstacle in the way of that incompetent person, he would do it, and be glad to see him stumble over it. - "Stories of New Jersey" by Frank Richard Stockton
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The reason why Frenchmen are incompetent to judge or appreciate what is not French is that they apply to all things the French measure. - "Since Cézanne" by Clive Bell
