Unfit
[ʌn'fɪt]
Definition
(adj.) not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; 'fat and very unfit'; 'certified as unfit for army service'; 'drunk and unfit for service' .
(adj.) below the required standards for a purpose; 'an unfit parent'; 'unfit for human consumption' .
Editor: Vince--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.
(a.) Not fit; unsuitable.
Inputed by Bennett
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unsuitable, inappropriate, inapposite, inapt.[2]. Unqualified, incapable, incapacitated, insufficient, unequal.
v. a. Disqualify, make unfit, incapacitate.
Inputed by Bernard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disable, incapacitate, disqualify, render_unfit,[See QUALIFY]
Checker: Wyatt
Definition
adj. unsuitable improper.—v.t. to disqualify.—adv. Unfit′ly.—n. Unfit′ness.—adj. Unfit′ting unsuitable.—adv. Unfit′tingly.
Typist: Meg
Examples
- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I entirely agree with you, he said; in my opinion those stories are quite unfit to be repeated. Plato. The Republic.
- In these cases the colonels were constitutional cowards, unfit for any military position; but not so the officers and men led out of danger by them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But to avoid taxation it must be rendered unfit for drinking by the addition of such unpalatable substances as wood alcohol, pyridin, benzola, sulphuric ether or animal oil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is true that the country, from its rocky surface and unfertile soil, was extremely unfit for the maintenance of those animals. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Or as the physically and mentally unfit. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It would be altogether unfitting now to explain that she had not wished her uncle to invite Will Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The ex-queen gives me Idris; Adrian is totally unfitted to succeed to the earldom, and that earldom in my hands becomes a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sensationalism is highly unfitted for this constructive task. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was further unfitted for command, for the reason that his conscience must have troubled him and made him afraid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His health was delicate, and he was lame, unfitted to be a farmer, and his best place seemed to be in his father’s mill. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Well, well, Emily, I don't pretend to interfere with your religious notions; only they seem extremely unfitted for people in that condition. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Typist: Nicholas