Inept vs Unfit - What's the difference?
inept | unfit | Related terms |
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence
Unfit; unsuitable
Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
:Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
Inept is a related term of unfit.
As adjectives the difference between inept and unfit
is that inept is not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence while unfit is not fit; not having the correct requirements.As a verb unfit is
to make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.inept
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* adept * skillfulunfit
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
