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incompetents [in-kom-pi-tuhnt]
Main Entry:
bungler [buhng-guhl]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who blunders
Synonyms: addlebrain, blockhead, blunderer, bonehead, botcher, bumbler, butcher, butterfingers, clod, clumsy oaf, dolt, donkey, duffer, dunce, featherbrain, fool, foul-up, fumbler, goof off, goofball, harebrain, idiot, ignoramus, incompetent, klutz, mismanager, muddler, muffer, numskull, screw up, spoiler
Antonyms: success
Main Entry: ne'er-do-well
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bum
Synonyms: idler, incompetent, loafer, loser, shiftless, wastrel, worthless
Related Words
Main Entry: failure
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
short, abortive, addle, aground, all up with, at fault, bankrupt, befooled, bootless, borne down, broken, broken down, capsized, cast away, crossed, dashed, dead beat, defeated, deficient, destroyed, disconcerted, dished, done for, done up, downtrodden, failing, flambe, foiled, foundered, fruitless, frustrated, grounded, hobbling, hoist on with one's own petard, in a sorry plight, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, insufficient, knocked on the head, lame, left in the lurch, lost, minus, nonsuited, oligophrenic, out of depth, out of one's reckoning, overborne, overwhelmed, perfunctory, played out, ruined, ruined root and branch, sacrificed, shipwrecked, short of, still, struck down, stultified, successless, swamped, thrown away, thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends, tripping, unattained, unavailing, uncompleted, undone, unfortunate, unhinged, unhorsed, unreached, unsuccessful, victimized, wide of the mark, wrecked
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Bungler.
Category: 2. Complex voluntary action
Synonyms:
-nouns
bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers., no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot., land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack (deceiver); lord of misrule., sloven, slattern, trapes.
-phrases
il n'a pas invente' la oudre; he will never set the Thames on fire; acierta errando; aliquis in omnibus nullus in singulis.
Antonyms: proficient
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