unfitadjective
uk/ʌnˈfɪt/us/ʌnˈfɪt/unfit adjective (NOT GOOD ENOUGH)
B2 not suitable or good enough for a particular purpose or activity:
The building was declared unfit for human habitation.
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Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- grain
- improper
- inapt
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- not cricket idiom
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- square peg (in a round hole) idiom
- unworthy
- vulgar
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unfit adjective (NOT HEALTHY)
B1 mainly UK not healthy because you do too little exercise:
I used to take plenty of exercise, but now I'm terribly unfit.
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- I felt so unfit after Christmas that I decided to join a gym.
- The meat was clearly unfit for human consumption .
- Simon is so unfit - he gets breathless just from walking up a flight of stairs.
- They accused the government of being unfit to govern.
- The judge ruled her an unfit mother.
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Not fit & healthy
- bedridden
- critical list
- crook
- danger list
- dehydrated
- emaciated
- far gone
- frailty
- groggy
- ill
- infirmity
- insufficiency
- knock
- not agree with sb idiom
- off-colour
- organic
- relapse
- shadow
- starved
- unhealthy
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