Inapposite
/ɪnˈæpəzɪt/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 of an inappropriate or misapplied nature wordnet
Example
More examples"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;"
Etymology
From in- + apposite.