Inaptitude

Definition: Inaptitude

Inaptitude

Noun

1. A lack of aptitude.

Date "inaptitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Inaptitude \In*apt"i*tude\, noun. [In- aptitude: compare to the French expression inaptitude. Compare to Ineptitude.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: aptitude (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disagreement	Unfitness; Adjective: inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability; Adjective: inconsistency, inconcinnity; irrelevancy; (irrelation).
Impotence	Noun: impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity; indocility; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.
Inutility	Noun: inutility; uselessness; Adjective: inefficacy, futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience; inadequacy; (insufficiency); inefficiency.; (incompetence); unskillfulness; disservice; unfruitfulness;(unproductiveness).; labor in vain, labor lost, labor of Sisyphus; lost trouble, lost labor; work of Penelope; sleeveless errand, wild goose chase, mere farce.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inaptitude

Non-English Usage: "Inaptitude" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (inaptitude, incompetence, unfitness).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude. (Fathers' Day; writing credit: Francis Veber)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "inaptitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pazotësi (inability, incapacity, incompetence), papërshtatshmëri (impropriety, inadequacy, infelicity, unfitness, unsuitableness), paaftësi (disability, impotence, impotency, inability, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, inefficacy, inefficiency). (various references)

Arabic		‏عدم ملائمة (inadequacy, ineptitude, ineptness), ‏عدم براعة. (various references)

Bulgarian		несъответствие (disagreement, discordance, discrepancy, disparity, dissonance, gap, inadequacy, inappropriateness, inconformity, incongruity, nonconformity, unconformity), неумение (incompetence, ineptitude), неспособност (disability, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness), непригодност. (various references)

Czech		nevhodnost (impolicy, impropriety, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappropriateness, incongruity, inexpediency, untimeliness). (various references)

Farsi		ناشایستگی (Demerit, Impropriety), بی مهارتی , بی لیاقتی (Inability), بی استعدادی (Unintelligence). (various references)

French		incapacité (inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency), inaptitude (incompetence). (various references)

German		untauglichkeit (improperness, incabability, incapaciation, incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineligibility, unfitness, unsuitability), ungeschicktheit (awkwardness, clumsiness, gaucherie, ineptitude), unfähigkeit (disability, impotence, inability, incapability, incapacity, incapacity for work, incompetence, incontinence, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, unability, unfitness). (various references)

Greek		αναρμοστία (inaptitudeness), αδεξιότησ (awkwardness, helplessness, inaptitudeness, loutishness, muff, sloughiness, ungainliness, unhandiness, unskillfulness), αδεξιότητα (awkwardness, clumsiness, gaucherie, helplessness, inaptitudeness, loutishness, muff, sloughiness, ungainliness, unhandiness, unskillfulness). (various references)

Hebrew		אי �"תאמ�" (disagreement, discrepancy, disproportion, maladjustment, misfit, nonconformity), חוסר יכולת. (various references)

Hungarian		oda nem illõség, alkalmatlanság (bother, botheration, disability, disqualification, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, ineptness, inexpedience, inexpediency). (various references)

Manx		neuablid (inability, incapability, incapacity), meehraaoilid (infelicity). (various references)

Pig Latin		inaptitudeay

Portuguese		inaptidão (disability, inability, incapacity), inabilidade (awkwardness, disability, disablement, impugnment of a statement, incapability, incapacity, incompetence), fora de propósito (Amiss, ill treat, inapposite, inexpedient, uncalled for). (various references)

Romanian		stupiditate (crassitude, density, foolishness, inanity, ineptitude, obtuseness, obtusity, stupidity), nepricepere (ignorance, incapacity). (various references)

Russian		неуместность (impropriety, incongruity, ineptitude, irrelevance), несоответствие (disagreement, discomformity, disconformity, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, inapplicability, incongruity, ineptitude, unconformity, variance), непригодность (disqualification, disutility, impracticability, inapplicability, unfitness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nevičnost (ineptitude, ineptness), nepogodnost (impropriety, inexpediency). (various references)

Spanish		ineptitud (ineptitude, ineptness, narrowness), incapacidad (disability, disqualified from making a contract, handicap, inability, incapability, incapacity, inefficacy, unfitness), falta de capacidad (incapability, incapacity). (various references)

Swedish		olämplighet (impropriety, inadaptability, inadequacy, inapplicability, incongruity, ineligibility, ineptitude, inexpediency, unsuitability). (various references)

Turkish		yersiz olma (irrelevance, irrelevancy), uygun olmama (inadaptability, inapplicability, inconvenience, unsuitability), toyluk (immaturity, inexperience, rawness, verdancy), kabiliyetsizlik (incapability, ineptitude), beceriksizlik (awkwardness, bungle, clumsiness, fecklessness, foozle, gaucherie, incompetence, inefficacy, ineptitude, ineptness, lubberliness, muff, rudeness, unhandiness). (various references)

Ukranian		невміння (ineptitude), недоречність (impertinence, impropriety, incongruity, ineptitude, irrelevance, unfitness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự vụng về (clumsiness, fumble, inaptness, maladroitness), sự không thích hợp (impropriety, inappropriateness, inaptness, incongruence, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, unfitness), sự không thích đáng sự không đủ tư cách (inaptness), sự không đủ năng lực (inaptness, incapableness, incapaciousness, incapacity), sự bất t� i (disability, inability, inaptness, incapability). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inaptitude": inaptitudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inaptitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ineptitue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "inaptitude" (pronounced 'In*apt"i*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Beatitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Decrepitude, Definitude, Desuetude, Disertitude, Disquiettude, Dissimilitude, Dulcitude, Egritude, 'Etude, Exacritude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, hebetude, incertitude, Indefinitude, ineptitude, Inertitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, inquietude, Insuetude, Inverisimilitude, lassitude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude, Sanctitude, Senectitude, Serenitude, servitude, similitude, solicitude, solitude, Spissitude, Torpitude, turpitude, Unitude, Unquietude, Vastitude, Verisimilitude, Vicissitude. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-p-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: aptitude, inputted, intuited, uintaite, unpitied.
	-3 letters: attuned, audient, depaint, inedita, nutated, painted, patient, patined, petunia, puttied, tainted, taunted.
	-4 letters: attend, attune, auntie, dautie, detain, dipnet, dunite, indite, intuit, nutate, nutted, pained, pandit, panted, pantie, patent, patine, patted, patten, pattie, peanut, pedant, pentad, pineta, pinite, pitied, pitted, pundit, punted, putted, tauted, tauten, tenuti, tiepin, tineid, tinted, titian, united, unpaid, untied, update.
	-5 letters: adept, adieu, anted, audit, daunt, entia, inapt, indie, indue, inept, input, nitid, nudie, paint, paned, pated, paten, patin, petit, petti, pieta, pined, pinta, putti, taint, taped, taunt, taupe, teiid, teind, tenia, tepid, tinea, tined, titan, tuned, unapt, unite, untie, upend.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-p-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: inaptitudes.
	+2 letters: deputization.
	+3 letters: deputizations, platitudinize, unanticipated.
	+4 letters: platitudinized, platitudinizes, quintuplicated, repudiationist.
	+5 letters: repudiationists, unanticipatedly, unsophisticated.
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