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Incompetent vs. Naive — What's the Difference?

Incompetent vs. Naive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Incompetent and Naive

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Incompetent

Lacking qualities necessary for effective conduct or action
An incompetent manager.

Naive

Simple and guileless; artless
A child with a naive charm.

Incompetent

Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application
“Because so many diseases fluctuate randomly over time, patients sometimes spontaneously improve despite incompetent treatment” (Richard A. Friedman).

Naive

Unsuspecting or credulous
Naive victims of the scam.

Incompetent

Not functioning properly in the body
An incompetent heart valve.
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Naive

Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment
"this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).

Incompetent

Not legally qualified, as testimony that does not meet the standards for admissibility or a juror whose personal interest in the outcome of the case does not allow that juror to serve impartially.

Naive

Not previously subjected to experiments
Testing naive mice.

Incompetent

Lacking sufficient mental ability or awareness
A defendant incompetent to stand trial.

Naive

Not having previously taken or received a particular drug
Patients naive to antipsychotic medication.

Incompetent

An incompetent person.

Naive

One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.

Incompetent

Unskilled; lacking the degree of ability that would normally be expected.
Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.

Naive

Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

Incompetent

Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.

Naive

Not having been exposed to something.

Incompetent

Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.

Naive

(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

Incompetent

(geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.

Naive

Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

Incompetent

A person who is incompetent.

Naive

A naive person; a greenhorn.

Incompetent

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
Incompetent to perform the duties of the place.

Naive

Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naïve manners; a naïve person; naïve and unsophisticated remarks.

Incompetent

Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence; a mentally defective person is incompetent to care for himself and requires a legal guardian.
Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation.

Naive

Having a lack of knowledge, judgment, or experience; especially, lacking sophistication in judging the motives of others; credulous; as, a naive belief in the honesty of politicians.

Incompetent

Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Naive

Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience;
A teenager's naive ignorance of life
The naive assumption that things can only get better
This naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances

Incompetent

Someone who is not competent to take effective action

Naive

Lacking experience of life;
A callow youth of seventeen

Incompetent

Not qualified or suited for a purpose;
An incompetent secret service
The filming was hopeless incompetent

Naive

Lacking sophistication

Incompetent

Showing lack of skill or aptitude;
A bungling workman
Did a clumsy job
His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf

Incompetent

Not doing a good job;
Incompetent at chess

Incompetent

Not meeting requirements;
Unequal to the demands put upon him

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