ineptitude
noun/ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.tjud/UK/ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.t(j)ud/CA/ɪˈnep.tə.t͡ʃʉd/
Etymology
From Latin ineptitūdō. By surface analysis, inept + -itude.
- borrowed from ineptitūdō
Definitions
The quality of being inept.
- The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence. Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.
An instance of being inept.
- He droned on with platitudes and ineptitudes while Malone whispered to Enid that if Alasha was a fair specimen of the population it was just as well that his native land was safely engulfed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The neighborhood
- synonymincompetence
- synonymineptness
- synonymschmuckiness
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ineptitude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA