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ineptest

ineptest is the superlative form of inept.

Meaning of inept

Adjective

inept (comparative more inept, superlative most inept)

  1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
    • As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
  2. Unfit; unsuitable.
    • The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the...1954, W. K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon, University Press of Kentucky, page xiii

Questions about ineptest

What is ineptest the superlative form of?
Ineptest is the superlative form of inept.

Words near ineptest in the dictionary

  1. inenergetic
  2. inenubilable
  3. inenumerable
  4. inept
  5. inepter
  6. ineptest
  7. ineptitude
  8. ineptitudes
  9. ineptly
  10. ineptness
  11. ineptnesses

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