- 1笨拙的、無能的、不稱職的
If someone is inept, they are not good at the thing they are trying to do — , awkward, or simply the wrong person for the job. You can call a person inept (an inept leader) or a single try inept (an inept attempt to fix the tap). It is not a kind word: it judges the skill, and often the person. It is fairly formal; in speech people more often say no good at it, useless at it, or . Though actually, inept is harsher than “not very skilled.” It often hints that the person should not be doing this at all. Do not pair it in your head with adept (skilled) as a neat opposite: they look like a pair, but they did not grow from the same word, and inept is ruder than “not adept.”
From the word’s history
From Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus.
源自拉丁文 ineptus，in-（不）加 aptus（合適，即 apt）。
組成Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus: in- (not) + aptus (fitting, well suited). So: not suited to the task.
同家族的字
- aptfrom the same Latin aptus: fitting or well chosen
- aptitudea natural fit or talent for something — the skill inept lacks
- ineptitudethe noun: the lack of skill
- ineptlythe adverb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ineptadj/ɪˈnɛpt/
- 1
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
- As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
- Stewing over recent legal defeats, he [Donald Trump] spent Sunday night posting a series of rambling rants assailing the “completely inept and embarrassing” Supreme Court, the “Deranged” former special counsel, […] and “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge” who ruled against him.
- 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 failure may be.
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