ineptitude

noun
/ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.tjud/UK/ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.t(j)ud/CA/ɪˈnep.tə.t͡ʃʉd/

Etymology

From Latin ineptitūdō. By surface analysis, inept + -itude.

  1. borrowed from ineptitūdō

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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