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incompetents

incompetents is the plural of incompetent.

Meaning of incompetent

Noun

incompetent (plural incompetents)

  1. A person who is incompetent.
    • But besides these incompetents, there was always a train of camp followers, —women who followed the camp, beggars, and criminals, whose number was often greater than the number of fighting soldiers.1915, Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams, Modern Warfare, page 11

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Questions about incompetents

What is incompetents the plural of?
Incompetents is the plural of incompetent.

Words near incompetents in the dictionary

  1. incompetencies
  2. incompetency
  3. incompetent
  4. incompetently
  5. incompetentness
  6. incompetents
  7. incompetibility
  8. incompetible
  9. incompitant
  10. incompleat
  11. incompleatly

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