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unfit
[ uhn-fit ]
adjective
- not fit; not adapted or suited; unsuitable:
He was unfit for his office.
Synonyms: unapt, inappropriate
- unqualified or incompetent.
Synonyms: incapable
- not physically fit or in due condition.
- Biology. pertaining to an organism or population that is not adapted to prevailing conditions or is not producing offspring in sufficient numbers to maintain its contribution to the gene pool of the next generation.
verb (used with object)
- to render unfit or unsuitable; disqualify.
unfit
/ ʌnˈfɪt /
adjective
- postpositiveoften foll byfor unqualified, incapable, or incompetent
unfit for military service
- postpositiveoften foll byfor unsuitable or inappropriate
the ground was unfit for football
- in poor physical condition
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Derived Forms
- unˈfitness, noun
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- un·fitness noun
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Example Sentences
Du Pont, 57, was initially declared “actively psychotic” and unfit for trial by a judge, and ordered to a psychiatric hospital.
In 1971, the local council declared it unfit for living, and evicted the occupants.
The panelists then proceed to screen out anyone they deem unfit for marriage.
And really, how can anybody claim that a 25-year-old is unfit to become Miss America?
The 1891 Immigration Act declared certain classes of individuals as unfit to become American citizens.
I always maintain that our women are of immense service to us, but many of them are physically unfit.
To his other iniquities Black Sheep had now added a phenomenal clumsiness—was as unfit to trust in action as he was in word.
But in the organic world there is no such thing as the "fit" or the "unfit," in any higher or moral sense.
But today—after that terrible ordeal, she felt as if life held little for her, that she was now unfit to perform any womanly duty.
Never smoke when the pores are open: they absorb, and you are unfit for decent society.
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