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   incompetent

   /ɪnˈkɒmpɪt(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully: "a forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant"
   • ▪ not qualified to act in a particular capacity: "the patient is deemed legally incompetent"
   • ▪ (especially of a valve or sphincter) not able to perform its function.

   noun

   • 1. an incompetent person: "the tanker captain was a known incompetent"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’ (see competent).

   Derivatives

   • 1. incompetently adverb

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