See inept on Wiktionary
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{
"word": "adept"
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{
"word": "skillful"
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence."
],
"id": "en-inept-en-adj-WGqQiczz",
"links": [
[
"able",
"able"
],
[
"proficient",
"proficient"
],
[
"incompetence",
"incompetence"
]
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anjeṙnhas",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "անձեռնհաս"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neumel",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "неумел"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nekadǎren",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "некадърен"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "inepte"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mou⁴ nang⁴ ke³",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "無能嘅 /无能嘅"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "ban⁶ zyut³ ge³",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "笨拙嘅"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wúnéng de",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "無能的 /无能的"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bènzhuō de",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "笨拙的"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neschopný"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "nešikovný"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "neobratný"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "ongeschikt"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "onbekwaam"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "ebapädev"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "saamatu"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "soss-sepp"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "asjatundmatu"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "avuton"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "taitamaton"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "kyvytön"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "osaamaton"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "inepte"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "unfähig"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aníkanos",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "ανίκανος"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "áchristos",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "άχρηστος"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "kukŕy",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "कुकृय"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "nekapabla"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "inetto"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fumuki na",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "不向きな"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nigate na",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "苦手な"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yowai",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "弱い"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nesposoben",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "неспособен"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nekadaren",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "некадарен"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "koretake"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "hakorea"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "pakihawa"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "rapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "talentløs"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "tåpelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "udugelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "uskikket"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "onjeschekjt"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "neptek"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "nieudolny"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "niezaradny"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "inapto"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "incapaz"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "incompetente"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "incompetent"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "incapabil"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neumélyj",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "неуме́лый"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nesposóbnyj",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "неспосо́бный"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "baoth"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "inepto"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "incapaz"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "beceriksiz"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "yeteneksiz"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nevmílyj",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "невмі́лий"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "not able to do something",
"word": "ope"
}
]
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{
"ref": "1954, W. K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon, University Press of Kentucky, page xiii:",
"text": "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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"Unfit; unsuitable."
],
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"unfit"
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"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nepodhodjašt",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "неподходящ"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neumesten",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "неуместен"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "m⁴ sik¹ dong³ ge³",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "唔適當嘅 /唔适当嘅"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùshìdàng de",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "不適當的 /不适当的"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "nevhodný"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "nejapný"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "ebapädev"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "sobimatu"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "ungeeignet"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "untauglich"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fumuki na",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "不向きな"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "futeki na",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "不適な"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "futekitō na",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "不適当な"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "neprikladen",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "неприкладен"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nesoodveten",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "несоодветен"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "negódnyj",
"sense": "unfit, unsuitable",
"word": "него́дный"
}
]
}
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"form": "ineptă",
"tags": [
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{
"form": "inepți",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "yo",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "et",
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"inept",
"inept#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "inept"
}
Download raw JSONL data for inept meaning in All languages combined (14.2kB)
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"inept"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "inept",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"inept"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "inept",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"inept"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "inept",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"inept"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
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}
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