Qualities
Synonyms for incompetent
The synonym for incompetent recorded in this bank is unskilled, in the sense "not doing a good job". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for incompetent
- unskilledadjective, in the sense "not doing a good job"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and incompetent carries one sense so far.
not doing a good job
Incompetent at chess.
The true synonym
unskilled
Same sentence, swapped: Unskilled at chess.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where incompetent stands in the sentence above.
- lacking
- unarmed
- petty
Where incompetent turns up in the game
incompetent is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where incompetent is the trap
- defectiveadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is faulty, in the sense "having a defect", with incompetent sitting one tile away.
Play incompetent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so incompetent reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
incompetent is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.