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Ineptitude

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.

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Damn 76% connected

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Darn 76% connected

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Emptiness 76% connected

The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hoot 76% connected

To cry out or shout in contempt.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Idleness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Paltriness 76% connected

The state or quality of being paltry.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rustiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being rusty.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sorriness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sorry.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trashiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being trashy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vanity 76% connected

The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Worthless 74% connected

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment;…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Worthless 74% connected

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment;…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Clumsiness 92% connected

The quality of being clumsy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Ineptness 92% connected

Unfitness; ineptitude.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slowness 92% connected

The quality or state of being slow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Worth 94% connected

To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and…

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Worth 94% connected

To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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