Unsuitable
[ʌn'suːtəb(ə)l;-'sjuːt-] or [ʌn'sutəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not meant or adapted for a particular purpose; 'a solvent unsuitable for use on wood surfaces' .
(adj.) not conducive to good moral development; 'the movie is unsuitable for children' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unfit, inappropriate, inapposite, unsuited, not adapted, ill adapted.[2]. Improper, unbecoming, incongruous, out of keeping, out of character, out of place, in bad taste.
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Definition
adj. not suitable fitting or adequate: unbecoming.—v.t. Unsuit′ to be unsuitable for.—ns. Unsuitabil′ity Unsuit′ableness.—adv. Unsuit′ably.—adjs. Unsuit′ed not suited or adapted to; Unsuit′ing not suiting.
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Examples
- In his marrying such a woman therefore there would be nothing unsuitable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was an unsuitable connexion, and did not produce much happiness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I speak, of course, in ignorance of the details, and they may be unsuitable on both sides. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I wish you'd leave Milton; which is a most unsuitable place for you, though it was my recommendation in the first instance. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But I am sorry to say that Fred was under some difficulty in repressing a laugh, which would have been more unsuitable than his father's snuff-box. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was a long time before she became at all reconciled to the idea of so unsuitable a match. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Device after device, relating to some part of the entire system, was designed, built, and tried, only to be rejected ruthlessly as being unsuitable; but the pursuit was not abandoned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She would not have allowed herself so unsuitable a word to any one but Mary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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