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Grammar : Adj

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Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈæpt

Definition of inapt

Origin : 1744, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + apt. Related: Inaptly; inaptness.

adj incompetent; not suitable

Example sentences :

Its name is a rather indefinite, but not inapt characterization.
Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent

Especially were I and my sister Eliza inapt in this particular.
Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass

My fellow servants were neither indifferent, dull, nor inapt.
Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass

The sentences were too long, the metaphors violent and inapt.
Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 » by Various

He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee.
Extract from : « Birds of the Rockies » by Leander Sylvester Keyser

I will question her; or since you fear I may put some inapt question to her, do so yourself.
Extract from : « The Mesmerist's Victim » by Alexandre Dumas

The colony is as unpromising, as the colonists are inapt to improve it.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 » by Various

Andromache offers a not inapt illustration to these remarks.
Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) » by John Addington Symonds

The title Alone strikes me, on reflection, as rather an inapt one for this volume.
Extract from : « Alone » by Norman Douglas

She acted languidly, her enunciation was imperfect, her gestures were forced and inapt.
Extract from : « Berenice » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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