Unfitting

adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not fitting (e.g., of clothes).

    "Haley looked down at her unfitting clothes and answered. “I don't really have anything else. I was traveling a lot, so I didn't have much stuff to carry around.” Sam frowned and got up. “I can give you some of my clothes[…]”"

  2. 2
    That is not fitting for its purpose; unsuitable; improper.

    "So the puzzle of the unfitting answer is solved immediately by the interviewee himself, and interactionally recognized as such by the laughing mode in which the participants deal with it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not in keeping with what is correct or proper wordnet

Synonyms

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aberrantabnormalabominableatrociousbadcharacter

Example

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"It's rather unfitting to call this planet "Earth" when it's obvious that it's an ocean."

Etymology

From Middle English unfitting, equivalent to un- + fitting.

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