Of a person: Of inadequate ability or qualification; unfit; incompetent. Obsolete.

Insufficient; not sufficing; incompetent.

Of persons: Lacking ability in some implied respect; incompetent, inefficient.

= insufficient, adj. 1.

Inefficient, ill-qualified. Of a person: Wanting in ability, ill-qualified, unskilled or inefficient in, of or to do (something).

Incompetent.

? Niggardly, mean; inefficient, ineffective.

Of inadequate ability or fitness; not having the requisite capacity or qualification; incapable. Const. to, to do something. Rarely of things.

Of a person: Not able to effect or accomplish anything; inefficient; not fit for work or service.

Unable.

Of a person: Not effecting or accomplishing something; deficient in the ability or industry required for what one has to do; not fully capable.

Feeble, ineffective, worthless.

In predicative use: not good (in various senses); of no ability, competence, quality, utility, or value; (also, of a person) unscrupulous…

A soldier, esp. a volunteer, who has failed to meet a certain standard during training. Opposed to efficient, adj. 2. Now rare.