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incompetent

adjective
🔊/ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/
🔊/ɪnˈkɑːmpɪtənt/
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  1. not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done无能力的；不胜任的；不称职的
    • an incompetent teacher不称职的教师
    • his incompetent handling of the affair他在处理这件事上的无能表现
    • The prime minister was attacked as incompetent to lead.首相被抨击缺乏领导能力。🔊🔊
    opposite competent
    Extra Examples
    • I know my boss considers me incompetent.我知道老板认为我无能。
    • a grossly incompetent piece of reporting毫无水平的报道
    • She worked for years under an incompetent manager.她在一名不称职的经理手下工作了多年。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • appear
    • be
    • consider somebody/​something
    • …
    adverb
    • criminally
    • grossly
    • hopelessly
    • …
    preposition
    • at
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    Word 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’.

incompetent

noun
🔊/ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/
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  1. a person who does not have the skill or ability to do their job or a task as it should be done不称职（或不能胜任、无能）的人
    • He’s a hopeless incompetent.他是一个绝望的无能。
    • The whole thing is being led by a bunch of incompetents.整件事情都是由一群无能之辈主导的。
    Word 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’.