not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done 无能力的;不胜任的;不称职的 an incompetent teacher 不称职的教师 his incompetent handling of the affair 他在处理这件事上的无能表现 The prime minister was attacked as incompetent to lead. 首相被抨击缺乏领导能力。
Extra ExamplesI know my boss considers me incompetent. 我知道老板认为我无能。 a grossly incompetent piece of reporting 毫无水平的报道 She worked for years under an incompetent manager. 她在一名不称职的经理手下工作了多年。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’.