Antonyms for inept
ɪnˈɛpt, ɪˈnɛptin·ept

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1. ineptadjective

   Antonyms:
   skillful, adept

2. ineptadjective

   Antonyms:
   adept, skillful

3. ineptadjective

   Antonyms:
   adept, skillful

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1. awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosenadjective

   not elegant or graceful in expression

   "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"

   Antonyms:
   felicitous, competent, adroit

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous, unenviable, feckless, ungainly, ill-chosen, tactless, fumbling, clumsy, inapt, gawky, awkward, bunglesome, cumbersome, bungling, incompetent, unwieldy, embarrassing, clunky, ill at ease(p), uneasy, sticky

2. feckless, ineptadjective

   generally incompetent and ineffectual

   "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"

   Antonyms:
   competent, felicitous, adroit

   Synonyms:
   tactless, feckless, ill-chosen, inapt, cumbersome, awkward, clumsy

3. inept, tactlessadjective

   revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse

   "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"

   Antonyms:
   felicitous, adroit, competent

   Synonyms:
   tactless, feckless, ill-chosen, inapt, cumbersome, awkward, clumsy, untactful

How to use inept in a sentence?

1. Kayla Dunn:

   For me as a woman of color, what CRT means to me is I’m inferior, that I’m academically inept, that I’m incapable of speaking for myself, and that when someone sees me they automatically see my skin color.

2. Paul Graham, September 2004:

   Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

3. Jenny Palmiotto:

   I immediately said yes, it must be so different to live in a world where people assume that … you are inept or incapable of having a relationship, or maybe even don’t want one. That’s really contrary to my clinical practice and even all of the available relational research to date.

4. Luca Guadagnino:

   The idea of four people in a house dealing with each other is potentially inept unless the absorbed force of their own desires is questioned by a clash with reality, pantelleria as a sort of border place is really demanding to be understood by these characters and is asking them to pose themselves these ethical questions.

5. John McCain:

   It does reveal an underlying view of these things that is really harmful and ... that is damaging, john Kerry has probably been the most inept secretary of state, certainly in my lifetime.

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