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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
Tony Kushner

Meaning of "ineptitude" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INEPTITUDE

ineptitude  [ɪnˈeptɪtjuːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INEPTITUDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ineptitude is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INEPTITUDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Social skills

Social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization. Interpersonal skills are sometimes also referred to as people skills or communication skills. Interpersonal skills are the skills a person uses to communicate and interact with others. They include persuasion, active listening, delegation, and leadership. The term "interpersonal skills" is used often in business contexts to refer to the measure of a person's ability to operate within business organizations through social communication and interactions. Interpersonal skills are how people relate to one another. Social psychology is an academic discipline that does research related to social skills or interpersonal skills. The discipline studies how skills are learned by an individual through changes in attitude, thinking, and behavior.

Definition of ineptitude in the English dictionary

The definition of ineptitude in the dictionary is awkwardness, clumsiness, or incompetence. Other definition of ineptitude is lack of appropriateness; the fact or state of being out of place.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INEPTITUDE


altitude
ˈæltɪˌtjuːd
amplitude
ˈæmplɪˌtjuːd
aptitude
ˈæptɪˌtjuːd
attitude
ˈætɪˌtjuːd
certitude
ˈsɜːtɪˌtjuːd
crassitude
ˈkræsɪtjuːd
decrepitude
dɪˈkrepɪtjuːd
exactitude
ɪɡˈzæktɪˌtjuːd
fortitude
ˈfɔːtɪˌtjuːd
gratitude
ˈɡrætɪˌtjuːd
habitude
ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd
inaptitude
ɪnˈæptɪtjuːd
latitude
ˈlætɪˌtjuːd
longitude
ˈlɒndʒɪˌtjuːd
magnitude
ˈmæɡnɪˌtjuːd
midlatitude
ˈmɪdˌlætɪtjuːd
multitude
ˈmʌltɪˌtjuːd
servitude
ˈsɜːvɪˌtjuːd
solitude
ˈsɒlɪˌtjuːd
spissitude
ˈspɪsɪtjuːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INEPTITUDE

ineloquence
ineloquent
ineloquently
ineluctability
ineluctable
ineluctably
ineludible
ineludibly
inenarrable
inept
ineptly
ineptness
inequable
inequalities
inequality
inequation
inequipotent
inequitable
inequitableness
inequitably

WORDS THAT END LIKE INEPTITUDE

absolute magnitude
earthquake magnitude
finitude
incertitude
inexactitude
infinitude
lassitude
line of latitude
line of longitude
negritude
order of magnitude
parallel of latitude
plenitude
pulchritude
show-me attitude
similitude
solicitude
the multitude
verisimilitude
vicissitude
visual magnitude

Synonyms and antonyms of ineptitude in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INEPTITUDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ineptitude» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ineptitude

Translation of «ineptitude» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INEPTITUDE

Find out the translation of ineptitude to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ineptitude from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ineptitude» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无能
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ineptitud
570 millions of speakers

English

ineptitude
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अयोग्यता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سخافة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неумелость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inépcia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুপযুক্ততা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ineptie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak diterima
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unbeholfenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

愚かさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부적당
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ineptitude
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô hiệu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மடத்தனமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्यपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

beceriksizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inettitudine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieudolność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невмілість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stupiditate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανικανότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbekwaamheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ineptitude
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inkompetanse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ineptitude

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INEPTITUDE»

The term «ineptitude» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.085 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INEPTITUDE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ineptitude» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ineptitude» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ineptitude

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6 QUOTES WITH «INEPTITUDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ineptitude.
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Sidney Blumenthal
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
2
Joe Klein
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
3
Tony Kushner
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
4
Stephen Merchant
I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference.
5
Jessica Savitch
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
6
Cindy Sherman
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INEPTITUDE»

Discover the use of ineptitude in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ineptitude and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Medicine on Trial: The Appalling Story of Medical Ineptitude ...
Argues that the medical profession has suppressed the truth concerning poor medical care in the U.S. and analyzes the causes of malpractice
Charles B. Inlander, Lowell S. Levin, Ed Weiner, 1989
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The Rampant Ineptitude of Modernity and Other Essays
Brian Taylor. to live where that news agency does. Is that a question of opinion or of fact? How do you know? Our modernity problems don't end here. We are all responsible for our own bovex filters, we must use them. (Bovex = bovine ...
Brian Taylor, 2010
3
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Ineptitude. See also Blunderer's-ineptitude. How the ineptitude of the time 423.58 Chnis.-Eve 871 Muttered now this now that ineptitude: 550. 16 Balaustion 720 To competency, not ineptitude 578.43 Aristoph. 250 Either — away with such ...
4
Currents of Comedy on the American Screen: How Film and ...
minious resignation from the presidency in disgrace, is certainly evidence of gross ineptitude, to say the very least. When suspense comedy films use a figure —with InspectorJacques Clouseau and Lieutenant Frank Drebin serving as prime ...
Nicholas Laham, 2009
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Police Ethics
Ineptitude. There are all sorts of transgressions against departmental regulations that are considered to be police misconduct but that involve neither personal gain nor the use of police authority on the part of erring cops. Such common ...
Douglas Perez, J. Moore, 2012
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The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy
My sense of the utter ineptitude (but the paradoxical masterly ineptitude) of the great Shakespeare heroes once led me ... this—one which, in Hegelian mode, positively incorporates the ineptitude right into the heart of the tragedy as such.
Heward Wilkinson, 2009
7
The Poetry of Darren Bresale
political ineptitude dictates the placing blame syndrome, a particular pathology that absolves the victim from any responsibility in bringing about personal & social progressive development in the victims community. political ineptitude fosters a ...
Darren Bresale, 2013
8
Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's ...
"Oh, people have been dying off in round numbers, in the most ostentatious manner, and the Ineptitude dislikes fuss — but hush, here's the King coming." His Majesty was looking doleful and grumpy, Alice thought, as though he had been ...
Carolyn Sigler, 1997
9
The Artist and Political Vision
Quince either is ignorant of the natural difference between a crescent and a full moon, or has forgotten what he wrote in his speech for Moonshine when he wrote his speech for Pyramus. In either case, the artisan-poet's ineptitude draws our ...
Benjamin R. Barber, Michael J. Gargas McGrath
10
Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays
March 8, 2004 Several weeks ago my column, “Teacher Ineptitude,” was about the sorry state of teacher quality concluding that while teacher ineptitude is neither flattering nor comfortable to confront but confront it we must if we're to do ...
Walter E. Williams, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INEPTITUDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ineptitude is used in the context of the following news items.
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Shrinking the 'Beast' of the Federal Workforce, and Other Ideas From …
She said the “ineptitude” was not limited to OPM. ... “It is simply another example of the ineptitude of a giant government bureaucracy that has ... «GovExec.com, Jul 15»
2
The Best Stock Picks From Delivering Alpha | InvestorPlace
Meanwhile, Carl Icahn admitted his social media ineptitude by revealing that his daughter was the one who “does his Twitter thing.”. «Investorplace.com, Jul 15»
3
This land was our land | TheHill
At a time when each day's headlines trumpet new examples of federal ineptitude, the federal bureaucracy continues to have faith -- in itself. «The Hill, Jul 15»
4
“James Marsden Wears Gray Pants And Black High-Top Sneakers …
... but for his ineptitude, to entertain the army of The Realm with his bungling. It's a greater bit of misdirection that dallying with Scott in the studio ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
5
Twitter hate brigade fuels wrong attitude of Kyrgios and Tomic …
The stories of ineptitude from St Leonard's are so numerous that it is hard to fit it all in. The $4.5m the ARU will lose on the National Rugby ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
Susan Granger at the Movies: 'Amy,' 'Minions,' 'The Gallows …
Over the ages, a T-Rex, an Egyptian pharaoh, Dracula and Napoleon fell because of the ineptitude of these nefarious henchmen. Exiled to a ... «Westport Now, Jul 15»
7
City, Petersburg National Battlefield to offer walking tour of Blandford …
Although the tunnel was an engineering marvel, the ferocity and resolve of the Confederate soldiers combined with the ineptitude of the Union ... «Progress Index, Jul 15»
8
Amy Schumer vehicle 'Trainwreck' should have tried harder to stay …
... (Brie Larson), the fact that they've stuck their ailing father (Colin Quinn) in a low-rent nursing home; and a complete ineptitude about sports. «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»
9
Cricket is approaching a fork in the road: Relapse or rehab? | The …
The BCCI's ineptitude is best encapsulated by the actions of the man who became the face of the corruption scandal, and current ICC chairman ... «The Roar, Jul 15»
10
Rahul Jacob: Almost nothing is allowed on Delhi Metro | Business …
There are times when you rail at the indignities and ineptitude of our policing and there are times when you hypocritically do that, but want to ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»

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