Incapacitated vs Incompetent - What's the difference?
incapacitated | incompetent |
Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.
Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
As adjectives the difference between incapacitated and incompetent
is that incapacitated is unable to act while incompetent is incompetent.As a verb incapacitated
is (incapacitate).incompetent
English
Adjective
(head)- Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
- The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.