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Synonyms for inapt
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-apt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈæpt |
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Définition of inapt
Origin :- 1744, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + apt. Related: Inaptly; inaptness.
- adj incompetent; not suitable
- 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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