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Ineptitude definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INEPT'ITUDE, n. Unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness; as an ineptitude to motion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness]
2: having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness" [syn: worthlessness, ineptitude] [ant: worth]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin ineptitudo, from ineptus Date: 1615 the quality or state of being inept; especially incompetence

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ineptitude In*ept"i*tude, n. [L. ineptitudo.] 1. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness. That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. --Tatler. 2. Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you refer to someone's ineptitude, you are criticizing them because they do something with a complete lack of skill. ...the tactical ineptitude of the allied commander. ? skill [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inaptitude, inappropriateness, impropriety, inappositeness. 2. Uselessness, worthlessness, emptiness, nullity. 3. Folly, foolishness, nonsense, silliness, senselessness, stupidity, pointlessness.

Moby Thesaurus

Urdummheit, absurdity, asininity, awkwardness, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, clumsiness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, disability, disablement, disqualification, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, gaucherie, giddiness, goofiness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, impoliticalness, impoliticness, inability, inadequacy, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, inefficiency, ineptness, inexpedience, inexpediency, infancy, infelicity, inferiority, inopportuneness, insanity, insufficiency, irrationality, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, legal incapacity, low IQ, lunacy, madness, maladroitness, mental weakness, mindlessness, minority, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, primal stupidity, queerness, reasonlessness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungainliness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unmeetness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwisdom, unwiseness, uselessness, wackiness, wardship, weirdness, witlessness, worthlessness, wrongness, zaniness, zanyism