unapt
/ʌnˈapt
/adjective
Not appropriate or suitable in the circumstances: it is not an unapt word...
- The one time I used it, thankfully, was for my high school yearbook (where it made a smashingly unapt contribution to the book's Art Nouveau theme.)
- As one of you put it to me, they are unapt for more than just that.
- I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite.
Derivatives
unaptly
- It's probably raining as a callow youth of 18 makes his way down to Sunshine Records, the most unaptly named emporium in the history of anything or everything.
- Hence the satyric drama is not unaptly called ‘a playful tragedy’, being both in form and materials the same as tragedy.
- I left the school in the company of a pinch-faced biddy unaptly named Purdy; she had family near London, and would see me safely to Aunt Faith's before she went on her way.
unaptness
- They are likewise reproved and threatened for their dulness and stupidity, and unaptness to profit by the instructions which the prophets gave them in God's name.
- If there be any thing of humanity, of an aptness to do good to others, or an unaptness to do them hurt or to take pleasure in their infelicities or miseries, there are so many specimens of goodness that are derived.
- These Chemical Secrets will never be fingered by those slothful or sottish despisers of them, by reason of their indisposition and unaptness for Manual operation.