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Webster 1913 Edition


Inapposite

In-ap′po-site

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Adj.
Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.
In-ap′po-site-ly
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adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inapposite

INAP'POSITE

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Adj.
s as z. [in and apposite.] Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent; as an inapposite argument.

Definition 2024


inapposite

inapposite

English

Adjective

inapposite (comparative more inapposite, superlative most inapposite)

  1. 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;

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