Incompetent
Incompetent adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Unsuccessful and incompetent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unsuccessful" instead an adjective "Incompetent".
Nearby Words: incompetence, incompetently
Unsuccessful
Unsuccessful adjective - Producing no results.
Incompetent and unsuccessful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Incompetent" instead an adjective "Unsuccessful".
Nearby Word: unsuccessfully
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- awkward and incompetent
- awkward and unsuccessful
- inept and incompetent
- inept and unsuccessful
- poor and incompetent
- poor and unsuccessful
- inefficient and incompetent
- inefficient and unsuccessful
- inadequate and incompetent
- inadequate and unsuccessful
- weak and incompetent
- weak and unsuccessful
- worthless and incompetent
- worthless and unsuccessful
Both words in one sentence
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In Eerie Indiana, the ghost of Grungy Bill, "The Worst Bank Robber West of the Mississippi" ("worst" as in "no good, incompetent") who has never committed a successful bank robbery, tries to run away during yet another unsuccessful attempt to rob a bank with one of the Eerie Bank's free toasters.
Source: Bank Toaster -
In 1685 the Duke of Monmouth suffered an even more Nightmare Fuel-lish fate; the terrified and incompetent executioner, Jack Ketch, took over seven unsuccessful blows to try and remove the head; he had to finish off the job with a knife.
Source: Off with His Head!
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