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Adjective inept has 3 senses
- awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen - 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?"
Antonym: felicitous (indirect, via infelicitous)
- feckless, inept - generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
Antonym: competent (indirect, via incompetent)
- inept, tactless - revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"
Antonym: adroit (indirect, via maladroit)
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