incompetent person

1. 1.

   someone who is not competent to take effective action

   Synonymsincompetent

   Broaderunskilled person

   Narrowerbunglerslouch

Questions about incompetent person

What does incompetent person mean?

incompetent person means "someone who is not competent to take effective action".

What is another word for incompetent person?

Close synonyms include incompetent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is incompetent person a common word?

incompetent person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.