Usually means: Lacking skills or ability required.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word incompetent:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incompetent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incompetent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incompetent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incompetent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incompetent, incompetent: Wordnik
  7. incompetent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incompetent: Wiktionary
  9. incompetent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incompetent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incompetent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. incompetent: Dictionary.com
  13. incompetent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incompetent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incompetent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. incompetent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. incompetent: Rhymezone
  18. incompetent, incompetent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. incompetent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. incompetent: Free Dictionary
  21. incompetent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. incompetent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. incompetent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. incompetent: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. incompetent: Legal dictionary
  7. incompetent: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incompetent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. incompetent: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incompetent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See incompetently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
adjective:  Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
adjective:  (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
adjective:  (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
noun:  A person who is incompetent.

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