acting or done with no skill 缺乏技巧的；无能的；笨拙的 She was left feeling inept and inadequate. 她被弄得感到笨拙无能。 He's intelligent but socially inept (= not good at relating to people socially). 他很聪明，但不善社交。 an inept remark 笨拙的发言 It would be politically inept to cut these training programmes now. 现在取消这些培训计划恐怕在政治上不明智。 He made some particularly inept remarks. 他说了一些特别蠢的话。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- rather
- completely
- intellectually
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- at
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not apt, unsuitable’): from Latin ineptus, from in- ‘not’ + aptus ‘fitted’, (past participle of apere ‘fasten’).
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adjective
inept adj.
⇨ incompetent
inept
Not skilful or able: incompetent, incapable, awful...
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