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Webster 1913 Edition
Unfit
Un-fit′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ fit
.] To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify;
as, sickness
unfits
a man for labor; sin unfits
us for the society of holy beings.Un-fit′
,Adj.
[Pref.
un-
+ fit
.] Not fit; unsuitable.
– Un-fit′ly
, adv.
Un-fit′ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unfit
UNFIT'
,Adj.
1.
Not fit; improper; unsuitable.2.
Unqualified; as a man unfit for an office.UNFIT'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To disable; to make unsuitable; to deprive of the strength, skill or proper qualities for any thing. Sickness unfits a man for labor.2.
To disqualify; to deprive of the moral or mental qualities necessary for any thing. Sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.Definition 2024
unfit
unfit
English
Adjective
unfit (comparative unfitter, superlative unfittest)
- Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
- Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
- Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
Verb
unfit (third-person singular simple present unfits, present participle unfitting, simple past and past participle unfitted)
- To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
- These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: