unsuitableadjective
uk/ʌnˈsuː.tə.bəl//ʌnˈsjuː.tə.bəl/us/ʌnˈsuː.t̬ə.bəl/B2 not acceptable or right for someone or something; not suitable:
The software blocks material that is unsuitable for children.
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- They officially designated the area as unsuitable for human habitation.
- Completely unsuitable candidates were screened out at the first interview.
- The programme's subject matter was quite unsuitable for children.
- Time after time she gets herself involved in relationships with unsuitable men.
- We were intending to walk up Ben Nevis but she had no coat and was wearing totally unsuitable footwear.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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
- unfit
- vulgar
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unsuitably
adverb uk/ʌnˈsuː.tə.bli//ʌnˈsjuː.tə.bli/us/ʌnˈsuː.t̬ə.bli/