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Inapposite

//ɪnˈæpəzɪt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    inappropriate, not suitable for the situation

    "1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of an inappropriate or misapplied nature wordnet

Etymology

From in- + apposite.

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