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say it: in-EPT
inept is an adjective meaning "not elegant or graceful in expression". It carries 3 recorded senses.
not elegant or graceful in expression
“an awkward prose style”
“a clumsy apology”
“his cumbersome writing style”
“if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?”
generally incompetent and ineffectual
“feckless attempts to repair the plumbing”
“inept handling of the account”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inept come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.