a. | 1. | |
1. | Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. | |
2. | Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. |
Adj. | 1. | inept - 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?" |
2. | inept - generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" Synonyms: feckless | |
3. | inept - revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" Synonyms: tactless |