not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done 無能力的;不勝任的;不稱職的 an incompetent teacher 不稱職的教師 his incompetent handling of the affair 他在處理這件事上的無能表現 The prime minister was attacked as incompetent to lead. 首相被抨擊缺乏領導能力。
Extra ExamplesI know my boss considers me incompetent. 我知道老板認爲我無能。 a grossly incompetent piece of reporting 毫無水平的報道 She worked for years under an incompetent manager. 她在一名不稱職的經理手下工作了多年。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’.