inapposite
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈæpəzɪt/
Adjective
inapposite (comparative more inapposite, superlative most inapposite)
- 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;
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
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