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INEPTITUDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ineptitude mean?
• INEPTITUDE (noun)
The noun INEPTITUDE has 2 senses:
1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
2. having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Familiarity information: INEPTITUDE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
awkwardness; clumsiness; ineptitude; ineptness; maladroitness; slowness
Hypernyms ("ineptitude" is a kind of...):
unskillfulness (a lack of cognitive skill)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ineptitude"):
rustiness (ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ineptitude; worthlessness
Context example:
the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
Hypernyms ("ineptitude" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ineptitude"):
fecklessness (worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual)
groundlessness; idleness (the quality of lacking substance or value)
paltriness; sorriness (worthlessness due to insignificance)
valuelessness (having none of the properties that endow something with value)
shoddiness; trashiness (the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better)
damn; darn; hoot; red cent; shit; shucks; tinker's dam; tinker's damn (something of little value)
emptiness; vanity (the quality of being valueless or futile)
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