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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Leading voices in the South Carolina Senate, such as Senator Sean Bennett (R), have also made the case that South Carolina’s tax code is uncompetitive, poorly structured, and that further reform is needed. —

Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 Other countries are making our goods too expensive and uncompetitive. —

Kelly Evans, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024 Free agency had become a meeting ground for two kinds of undesirable partners: mostly uncompetitive teams with cap space and the players not good enough to get big extensions from their own teams. —

Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 3 July 2024 Its cloud service is similarly uncompetitive—its revenues were around 0.01% those of Amazon Web Services in Q3. —

Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for uncompetitive