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inapt
[ in-apt ]
adjective
- not apt or fitting.
Synonyms: unsuited, inapposite, unfit, inappropriate, unsuitable
Antonyms: appropriate
- without aptitude or capacity.
Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, incapable
Antonyms: capable
inapt
/ ɪnˈæpt /
adjective
- not apt or fitting; inappropriate
- lacking skill; inept
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Derived Forms
- inˈaptly, adverb
- inˈaptiˌtude, noun
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Other Words From
- in·aptly adverb
- in·aptness noun
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Example Sentences
Everybody on TV seemed to like it, but I found it ... not exactly inappropriate, but inapt.
Nor did we find this description at all inapt as we drove over its excellent roads during the fine July weather.
He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee.
This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese-box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt.
Hurrying to the spot I met with a little adventure which it may not be inapt to relate.
But this latter comparison, as I have shown, was curiously inapt if intended to cover the whole direction of the enterprise.
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