Incompetent vs Disqualified - What's the difference?
incompetent | disqualified |
Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.
Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
(disqualify)
To make ineligible for something, by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.
As an adjective incompetent
is unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.As a noun incompetent
is a person who is incompetent.As a verb disqualified is
past tense of disqualify.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.