incompetentadj.n.

/ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/

Etymology: < French incompétent, < late Latin incompetent-em , < in- (in- prefix⁴) + competent-em competent n.

A. adj. Not competent.

†1. Insufficient, inadequate. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective]

insuffisant1387

unsufficient1398

over-little?a1400

unsuffisantc1400

unthankful1491

insufficienta1513

wanec1540

incompetent1611

under1673

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Rose Chapeau, ou chapel de roses, a small, sleight, incompetent, or lesse-then-due portion giuen a maid to her mariage.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 40 An incompetent Cause for the Formation of a World.

1789 A. Hamilton Euology on N. Greene 4 July in Papers (1962) II. 347 The situations..were yet incompetent to the full display of those..endowments, with which nature..decorates a favorite.

1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 406/1 A purse incompetent to this demand.

a. Of inadequate ability or fitness; not having the requisite capacity or qualification; incapable. Const. to, to do something. Rarely of things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > unable or incompetent

insufficientc1386

insuffisant1387

unable1395

unsufficient1395

weak1423

uncompetentc1549

short-handed1622

incompetent1641

ineffective1653

nequient1656

inefficient1750

wandought1788

no good1838

non-efficient1863

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D2^v Sir Francis Knowles was somewhat neare in the Queenes affinitie, and had likewise noe incompetent issue.

1693 N. Mather in J. Owen 2 Disc. Holy Spirit Pref. sig. A3 [It] is not for so incompetent a Pen to say as writes this.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 4 I may not be thought altogether an incompetent person, having been present as a Member of Parliament in those Councils before.

1800 S. T. Coleridge Let. 13 Oct. (1956) I. 637 I would gladly write any Verses, but to a Prologue or Epilogue I am absolutely incompetent.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. viii. 678 The Nabob, who was totally incompetent to his own defence.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 141 Much more, if first I floated free, As naked essence, must I be Incompetent of memory.

1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 41 A body placed in a light which it is incompetent to transmit appears black.

1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope v. 131 He was no philosopher, and therefore an incompetent assailant of the abuses of philosophy.

b. Medicine. Unable to function correctly: used esp. of a valve or sphincter. (Cf. incompetence n. 2b.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > disordered functioning

ataxic1853

incompetent1863

stammering1868

atactic1880

hyperfunctioning1918

hypofunctional1933

hyperfunctional1934

1863 W. Braithwaite in Retrospect Med. XLVII. 69 If..the aortic valvular segments are rendered incompetent, we have the aortic regurgitant current.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 84 The mitral valves were puckered and incompetent.

1939 J. H. Dible & T. B. Davie Pathol. xxxii. 537 The aortic valves are incompetent and allow a certain quantity of blood to flow back into the left ventricle during diastole.

1950 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 59 69 An abortion due to an incompetent internal os.

1971 Amer. Jrnl. Digestive Dis. 16 307 Eight patients had free gastroesophageal relux through a weak, incompetent sphincter.

1971 Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Children 121 481/2 The immunologic system may be incompetent or contribute to the etiology of the disease.

3. Not legally competent or qualified.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal capacity > [adjective] > not

uncapable1589

incompetent1595

incapable1651

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. xxii. sig. N4^v Subiects..Iudges incompetent To iudge their king.

1650 T. Hobbes in W. Davenant Disc. upon Gondibert 120 I lie open to two Exceptions, one of an incompetent, the other of a corrupted Witnesse.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. iii. 176 The Objections of an incompetent Judgment.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 320 Further action..is ipso iure incompetent.

4. Logically inadmissible or illegitimate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [adjective] > fallacious

inartificial1588

illegitimate1600

vicious1605

unvalida1657

paralogical1658

paralogistic1677

incompetent1833

paralogic1860

1833 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 207 Dr. Whately's definition is, therefore, not only incompetent, but delusive.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xvii. 320 This process is wholly incompetent to the logician.

5. Geology. Of rock or a stratum: apt to flow or to be crushed when laterally compressed; incapable of forming a simple fold and supporting any overlying strata without being distorted by plastic flow. Also applied to structures and processes dominated by such strata.

ΚΠ

1893 B. Willis in 13th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1891–2: Pt. 2 250 If the thrust be not powerful enough to raise the load there will be no uplift; or if the layers be so plastic that they yield to the thrust by swelling, then the principal result of deformation is change of form other than by simple flexure, and it assumes some phase of flowing. This is incompetent structure.

1923 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 31 506 Several attempts were made to reproduce the overfolds..of the Alps by applying rotational stresses to models in which competent layers were placed between incompetent layers.

1949 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 4) iii. 54 Folding has been divided into two groups: competent folding, where the dominantly horizontal pressures are transmitted by the competent beds acting as a strut; and incompetent folding where the forces are mostly vertical and the incompetent beds react passively.

1949 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 4) iii. 55 Immediately beneath the arch formed by a folded relatively competent bed a formation as incompetent as shale may rise as a broad simple arch, even at a considerable depth.

1967 A. I. Levorsen Geol. Petroleum (ed. 2) viii. 358 In these cases the salt mass acts as an incompetent formation, rising as a result of the deformation of the enclosing rocks.

1967 A. I. Levorsen Geol. Petroleum (ed. 2) viii. 378 Folds in the relatively incompetent salt.

B. n.

An incompetent person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > incapable or incompetent person

insufficient1654

ineffective1856

incompetent1866

inefficient1898

nyamps1900

mook1930

screw-up1944

inadequate1962

no-talent1962

spaz1965

cowboy1982

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]

mafflardc1450

juffler15..

dromedary1567

madbrain1570

batie buma1586

addle-head1592

blunderkin1596

nit1598

addle-pate1601

hash1655

blunderbuss1692

blunderhead1692

shaffles1703

fog-pate1732

blunderer1741

puzzle-pate1761

slouch1767

étourdi1768

botch1769

puddle1782

bumble1789

scatter-brain1790

addle-brain1799

puzzle-head1815

shaffler1828

chowderhead1833

muddlehead1833

muddler1833

flounderer1836

duffer1842

muddle-pate1844

plug1848

incompetent1866

schlemiel1868

dinlo1873

drumble-dore1881

hodmandod1881

dub1887

prune1895

foozler1896

bollock1916

messer1926

Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942

spaz1965

spastic1981

1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 248 These jealous incompetents had..hurled him down into a muddy pit of error.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 228 A dauber, an incompetent, not fit to be a sign-painter.

Derivatives

inˈcompetentness n. incompetence (Bailey vol. II, 1727).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	incompetent
释义	incompetentadj.n. /ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/ Etymology: < French incompétent, < late Latin incompetent-em , < in- (in- prefix⁴) + competent-em competent n. A. adj. Not competent. †1. Insufficient, inadequate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] insuffisant1387 unsufficient1398 over-little?a1400 unsuffisantc1400 unthankful1491 insufficienta1513 wanec1540 incompetent1611 under1673 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Rose Chapeau, ou chapel de roses, a small, sleight, incompetent, or lesse-then-due portion giuen a maid to her mariage. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 40 An incompetent Cause for the Formation of a World. 1789 A. Hamilton Euology on N. Greene 4 July in Papers (1962) II. 347 The situations..were yet incompetent to the full display of those..endowments, with which nature..decorates a favorite. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 406/1 A purse incompetent to this demand. 2. a. Of inadequate ability or fitness; not having the requisite capacity or qualification; incapable. Const. to, to do something. Rarely of things. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > unable or incompetent insufficientc1386 insuffisant1387 unable1395 unsufficient1395 weak1423 uncompetentc1549 short-handed1622 incompetent1641 ineffective1653 nequient1656 inefficient1750 wandought1788 no good1838 non-efficient1863 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D2^v Sir Francis Knowles was somewhat neare in the Queenes affinitie, and had likewise noe incompetent issue. 1693 N. Mather in J. Owen 2 Disc. Holy Spirit Pref. sig. A3 [It] is not for so incompetent a Pen to say as writes this. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 4 I may not be thought altogether an incompetent person, having been present as a Member of Parliament in those Councils before. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Let. 13 Oct. (1956) I. 637 I would gladly write any Verses, but to a Prologue or Epilogue I am absolutely incompetent. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. viii. 678 The Nabob, who was totally incompetent to his own defence. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 141 Much more, if first I floated free, As naked essence, must I be Incompetent of memory. 1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 41 A body placed in a light which it is incompetent to transmit appears black. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope v. 131 He was no philosopher, and therefore an incompetent assailant of the abuses of philosophy. b. Medicine. Unable to function correctly: used esp. of a valve or sphincter. (Cf. incompetence n. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > disordered functioning ataxic1853 incompetent1863 stammering1868 atactic1880 hyperfunctioning1918 hypofunctional1933 hyperfunctional1934 1863 W. Braithwaite in Retrospect Med. XLVII. 69 If..the aortic valvular segments are rendered incompetent, we have the aortic regurgitant current. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 84 The mitral valves were puckered and incompetent. 1939 J. H. Dible & T. B. Davie Pathol. xxxii. 537 The aortic valves are incompetent and allow a certain quantity of blood to flow back into the left ventricle during diastole. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 59 69 An abortion due to an incompetent internal os. 1971 Amer. Jrnl. Digestive Dis. 16 307 Eight patients had free gastroesophageal relux through a weak, incompetent sphincter. 1971 Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Children 121 481/2 The immunologic system may be incompetent or contribute to the etiology of the disease. 3. Not legally competent or qualified. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal capacity > [adjective] > not uncapable1589 incompetent1595 incapable1651 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. xxii. sig. N4^v Subiects..Iudges incompetent To iudge their king. 1650 T. Hobbes in W. Davenant Disc. upon Gondibert 120 I lie open to two Exceptions, one of an incompetent, the other of a corrupted Witnesse. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. iii. 176 The Objections of an incompetent Judgment. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 320 Further action..is ipso iure incompetent. 4. Logically inadmissible or illegitimate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [adjective] > fallacious inartificial1588 illegitimate1600 vicious1605 unvalida1657 paralogical1658 paralogistic1677 incompetent1833 paralogic1860 1833 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 207 Dr. Whately's definition is, therefore, not only incompetent, but delusive. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xvii. 320 This process is wholly incompetent to the logician. 5. Geology. Of rock or a stratum: apt to flow or to be crushed when laterally compressed; incapable of forming a simple fold and supporting any overlying strata without being distorted by plastic flow. Also applied to structures and processes dominated by such strata. ΚΠ 1893 B. Willis in 13th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1891–2: Pt. 2 250 If the thrust be not powerful enough to raise the load there will be no uplift; or if the layers be so plastic that they yield to the thrust by swelling, then the principal result of deformation is change of form other than by simple flexure, and it assumes some phase of flowing. This is incompetent structure. 1923 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 31 506 Several attempts were made to reproduce the overfolds..of the Alps by applying rotational stresses to models in which competent layers were placed between incompetent layers. 1949 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 4) iii. 54 Folding has been divided into two groups: competent folding, where the dominantly horizontal pressures are transmitted by the competent beds acting as a strut; and incompetent folding where the forces are mostly vertical and the incompetent beds react passively. 1949 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 4) iii. 55 Immediately beneath the arch formed by a folded relatively competent bed a formation as incompetent as shale may rise as a broad simple arch, even at a considerable depth. 1967 A. I. Levorsen Geol. Petroleum (ed. 2) viii. 358 In these cases the salt mass acts as an incompetent formation, rising as a result of the deformation of the enclosing rocks. 1967 A. I. Levorsen Geol. Petroleum (ed. 2) viii. 378 Folds in the relatively incompetent salt. B. n. An incompetent person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > incapable or incompetent person insufficient1654 ineffective1856 incompetent1866 inefficient1898 nyamps1900 mook1930 screw-up1944 inadequate1962 no-talent1962 spaz1965 cowboy1982 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun] mafflardc1450 juffler15.. dromedary1567 madbrain1570 batie buma1586 addle-head1592 blunderkin1596 nit1598 addle-pate1601 hash1655 blunderbuss1692 blunderhead1692 shaffles1703 fog-pate1732 blunderer1741 puzzle-pate1761 slouch1767 étourdi1768 botch1769 puddle1782 bumble1789 scatter-brain1790 addle-brain1799 puzzle-head1815 shaffler1828 chowderhead1833 muddlehead1833 muddler1833 flounderer1836 duffer1842 muddle-pate1844 plug1848 incompetent1866 schlemiel1868 dinlo1873 drumble-dore1881 hodmandod1881 dub1887 prune1895 foozler1896 bollock1916 messer1926 Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942 spaz1965 spastic1981 1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 248 These jealous incompetents had..hurled him down into a muddy pit of error. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 228 A dauber, an incompetent, not fit to be a sign-painter. Derivatives inˈcompetentness n. incompetence (Bailey vol. II, 1727). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1595
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