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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