in·ept
adjective/ɪˈnept/
/ɪˈnept/
- 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).
他聪明但不善交际。 - 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
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not apt, unsuitable’): from Latin ineptus, from in- ‘not’ + aptus ‘fitted’, (past participle of apere ‘fasten’). - She was left feeling inept and inadequate.