ineptitude

English

Noun

ineptitude (countable and uncountable, plural ineptitudes)

1. The quality of being inept.
   • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence. Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.

Synonyms

• ineptness

Translations

the quality of being inept

• Bulgarian: абсу́рдност (bg) f (absúrdnost), неуместност (bg) f (neumestnost)
• Catalan: ineptitud f
• Dutch: dwaasheid (nl)
• Finnish: avuttomuus (fi), taitamattomuus (fi), kyvyttömyys (fi)
• French: stupidité (fr)
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• German: Unfähigkeit (de) f (inability); Untauglichkeit f (unfitness)
• Greek: ανεπιτηδειότητα (el) f (anepitideiótita)
• Manx: meehraaoilaght f
• Russian: неспособность (ru) f (nesposobnostʹ), негодность (ru) f (negodnostʹ), никудышность (ru) f (nikudyšnostʹ)
• Spanish: ineptitud (es) f