uncompetitive

adjective

un·com·pet·i·tive ˌən-kəm-ˈpe-tə-tiv

Synonyms of uncompetitive next

: not competitive : unable to compete

The only real alternative would be to protect those uncompetitive industries against foreign competition.—

Business Week

Greene took his latest Courageous to Australia for the current race, but he says he withdrew it when it proved uncompetitive against other boats backed by fatter treasuries.—

John Rousmaniere

uncompetitiveness noun

Examples of uncompetitive in a Sentence

As long as the school system keeps offering uncompetitive wages, people looking for jobs will apply elsewhere.

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Fubo, which is sports-focused with an emphasis on giving cord-cutters a way to watch their local teams, had argued Venu would have solidified those three networks’ grasp on sports broadcasts and create an uncompetitive market. —

David Matthews, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025 Only a few organizations have meaningful cap room and most of them are uncompetitive. —

Fred Katz, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025 As a result, the model did not qualify for the Chinese subsidies, which doomed it to be uncompetitive. —

Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024 Adding this contest-level error on top of the base state-level error also helps the model distinguish between competitive and uncompetitive races, allowing for a better fit in the model overall. —

G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for uncompetitive