inept

  • (s) not elegant or graceful in expression
    • an awkward prose style
    • a clumsy apology
    • his cumbersome writing style
    • if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
    ill-chosen, inapt, clumsy, cumbersome, awkward,
  • (s) generally incompetent and ineffectual
    • feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
    • inept handling of the account
    feckless,
  • (s) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
    • an inept remark
    • it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable
    tactless,

Synonyms

ill-chosen inapt clumsy cumbersome awkward feckless tactless

Words of close approximity

inert
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