inept.
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
Meaning & usage
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
Unfit; unsuitable.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).
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