INEPTITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ineptitude mean? 

• INEPTITUDE (noun)
  The noun INEPTITUDE has 2 senses:

1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

2. having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

  Familiarity information: INEPTITUDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEPTITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

awkwardness; clumsiness; ineptitude; ineptness; maladroitness; slowness

Hypernyms ("ineptitude" is a kind of...):

unskillfulness (a lack of cognitive skill)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ineptitude"):

rustiness (ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ineptitude; worthlessness

Context example:

the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness

Hypernyms ("ineptitude" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ineptitude"):

fecklessness (worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual)

groundlessness; idleness (the quality of lacking substance or value)

paltriness; sorriness (worthlessness due to insignificance)

valuelessness (having none of the properties that endow something with value)

shoddiness; trashiness (the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better)

damn; darn; hoot; red cent; shit; shucks; tinker's dam; tinker's damn (something of little value)

emptiness; vanity (the quality of being valueless or futile)