incompetent
17
6.8
- adjective
- /ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/
- Formal
:
incapacitado
- People are deemed incompetent when they lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves.
- legally incompetent
- mentally incompetent
- declared incompetent
Here's here it is back again and, and, and in the most legally incompetent form possible.
- Here's here it is back again and, and, and in the most legally incompetent form possible.
- I'm like, he's a mentally, he's a mentally incompetent inmate who does legal work.
Examples
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A conservator generally is an individual appointed by the court to oversee property decisions for an incompetent person.
Academic text (1999) -
In fact, it is only children and the mentally incompetent who have no right to contract.
Academic text (2005) -
Only if the patient is incompetent is it considered appropriate to turn to others.
Academic text (1991) -
I told you Court would either give up the land... or be declared mentally incompetent to manage it.
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Since they are incompetent to determine what is right, they must of necessity ask who is right.
Academic text (1995) -
We have to claim that you're incompetent to stand trial.
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The probate court denied the petitioner's request for an abortion, finding her to be incompetent to make decisions concerning such procedures.
Academic text (2005) -
Nicholson noted that Silva had been repeatedly ruled incompetent to stand trial for the assaults.
Academic text (2011) -
You're here either because you have been found incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or you're undergoing a forensic evaluation, as in the case of some of our visitors up from the state jails and penitentiary.
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The judge determined that he was incompetent to testify due to his mental health issues.
Synonyms
24
4.0
Not having the needed skill or legal right to do a job
1
9.0
Not able to think or decide clearly about important legal matters
A person not allowed to do or get something because of the rules
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A weak cervix that opens too early in pregnancy and can cause miscarriage or early birth
How Qualified
1
3.6
304
3.0
- Formal
17
6.8
24
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Incompetent comes from in- ('not') plus competent ('fit' or 'able'), and in law this idea became 'not fit' to make decisions or act in a legal role, which is why the word can mean legally unqualified.