Inapposite

/ɪnˈæpəzɪt/

Synonyms for "inapposite" (90 found)

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More general

9 entries
adjectiveadverbadverb of mannerargument elementcommentconceptcontext dependent descriptorqualitative termremark

More specific

12 entries
ill suited usageill-advisedlyinappropriate illustrationinappropriate remarkirrelevant datairrelevant remarkirrelevantlymisplaced analogymisplacedlyunaptlyunrelated exampleunrelatedly

Collocations

10 entries
inapposite analogyinapposite caseinapposite citationinapposite commentinapposite datainapposite exampleinapposite illustrationinapposite placementinapposite remarkinapposite usage

Inflections

5 entries
inappositesmore inappositemore inappositelymost inappositemost inappositely

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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;

Source: wiktionary

But [Assistant to the Solicitor General Austin] Raynor relied on this distinction – whether proceedings are pending, or all proceedings have ended – to argue that the court’s 2001 decision interpreting the post-removal order statute, Zadvydas v. Davis, was inapposite.

Source: wiktionary

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