Ineptitude
noun
Lack of skill or ability.
Her ineptitude at handling customer complaints resulted in many unhappy customers.
Often appears as...
- display of ineptitude
- political ineptitude
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Disapproving
noun
Lack of skill or ability.
Her ineptitude at handling customer complaints resulted in many unhappy customers.
Often appears as...
- display of ineptitude
- political ineptitude
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Ineptitude implies a critical assessment of someone's abilities, often seen as an insult.
The manager's ineptitude meant he couldn't lead the team effectively.
Pro Tip 2/3Situational Use
Use 'ineptitude' to refer to specific situations where someone shows lack of skill, not general intelligence.
Despite his math ineptitude, he is a brilliant writer.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Inherent
'Ineptitude' often implies a temporary state, suggesting improvement is possible.
Her cooking ineptitude lessened with practice.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Ineptitude implies a critical assessment of someone's abilities, often seen as an insult.
The manager's ineptitude meant he couldn't lead the team effectively.
Pro Tip 2/3Situational Use
Use 'ineptitude' to refer to specific situations where someone shows lack of skill, not general intelligence.
Despite his math ineptitude, he is a brilliant writer.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Inherent
'Ineptitude' often implies a temporary state, suggesting improvement is possible.
Her cooking ineptitude lessened with practice.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Ineptitude implies a critical assessment of someone's abilities, often seen as an insult.
The manager's ineptitude meant he couldn't lead the team effectively.
Pro Tip 2/3Situational Use
Use 'ineptitude' to refer to specific situations where someone shows lack of skill, not general intelligence.
Despite his math ineptitude, he is a brilliant writer.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Inherent
'Ineptitude' often implies a temporary state, suggesting improvement is possible.
Her cooking ineptitude lessened with practice.
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Laurie Santos: How...
when it comes to some aspects of our decision making. Now I'm seeing lots of smirks out there. Don't worry, I'm not going to call anyone in particular out on any aspects of your own mistakes. But of course, just in the last two years we see these unprecedented examples of human ineptitude. And we've watched as the tools we uniquely make
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Unraveling a Mapmaker’s...
what does that mean to be mapped you know yeah we know that there's a mountain there but no we don't actually know how high it is and we don't know how it relates to these other mounts necessarily okay well so this is gonna really show my my map ineptitude potentially but i've got a family a family atlas i'm
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Laurie Santos: How...
when it comes to some aspects of our decision making. Now I'm seeing lots of smirks out there. Don't worry, I'm not going to call anyone in particular out on any aspects of your own mistakes. But of course, just in the last two years we see these unprecedented examples of human ineptitude. And we've watched as the tools we uniquely make
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Unraveling a Mapmaker’s...
what does that mean to be mapped you know yeah we know that there's a mountain there but no we don't actually know how high it is and we don't know how it relates to these other mounts necessarily okay well so this is gonna really show my my map ineptitude potentially but i've got a family a family atlas i'm
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Stephen Merchant
English Writer
I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference.
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Jeff Vandermeer
American Writer
I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.
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Stephen A. Schwarzman
American Businessman
Doing a me-too business, because it's you - the only person who cares about that is you. The market doesn't care if it's you. The market is pretty much being served. You better have something that the world doesn't have, because even then, you might screw it up through your own ineptitude and inexperience.
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Tony Kushner
American Playwright
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
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Harold E. Varmus
American Scientist
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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Charles Dallara
American Businessman
How can the United States preserve its financial and security leadership role when it conducts itself with such ineptitude and such disregard for the consequences for the world?
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Sidney Blumenthal
American Journalist
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
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Jarvis Cocker
English Musician
Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.
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Cindy Sherman
American Photographer
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
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Jessica Savitch
American Journalist
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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Stephen Merchant
English Writer
I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference.
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Jeff Vandermeer
American Writer
I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.
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Stephen A. Schwarzman
American Businessman
Doing a me-too business, because it's you - the only person who cares about that is you. The market doesn't care if it's you. The market is pretty much being served. You better have something that the world doesn't have, because even then, you might screw it up through your own ineptitude and inexperience.
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Tony Kushner
American Playwright
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
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Harold E. Varmus
American Scientist
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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Charles Dallara
American Businessman
How can the United States preserve its financial and security leadership role when it conducts itself with such ineptitude and such disregard for the consequences for the world?
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Sidney Blumenthal
American Journalist
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
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Jarvis Cocker
English Musician
Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.
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Cindy Sherman
American Photographer
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
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Jessica Savitch
American Journalist
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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