not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be donean incompetent teacherhis incompetent handling of the affairThe Prime Minister was attacked as incompetent to lead.oppositecompetentOxford Collocations Dictionaryverbsappear,be,consider somebody/something,…adverbcriminally,grossly,hopelessly,…prepositionatSeefull entryWord 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’.Extra examplesI know my boss considers me incompetent.a grossly incompetent piece of reportingthe medical treatment of legally incompetent patientsShe worked for years under an incompetent manager.They criticized his incompetent handling of the affair.
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