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unapt

[ uhn-apt ]

adjective

  1. not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable:

    an unapt answer.

  2. not prone, likely, or disposed:

    She is unapt to waste what she has accumulated with such effort.

  3. deficient in aptitude or capacity; slow; dull:

    an unapt student.



unapt

/ ʌ²Ôˈʱè³Ù /

adjective

  1. usually postpositiveoften foll byfor not suitable or qualified; unfitted
  2. mentally slow
  3. postpositive; may take an infinitive not disposed or likely (to)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ³Ü²Ôˈ²¹±è³Ù²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
  • ³Ü²Ôˈ²¹±è³Ù±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From

  • ³Ü²Ô·²¹±è³Ùl²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ô·²¹±è³Ùn±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of unapt1

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; un- 1, apt
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Example Sentences

If someone fleeing war or persecution lands first in the United States – deemed a “safe country,” a notion now dramatically unapt – they are barred from seeking refuge in Canada.

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The local newspaper the Sheffield Mercury called him a "disappointment", adding that he was "exceedingly loath to climb, and in what effort he did make, his admirers thought him indolent, unapt, and unwieldy".

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Yet the madness of the Reign of Terror is no unapt illustration of the violent emotions to which mediï¿œval populations were subject, for good or for evil, giving occasion to the startling contrasts which render the period so picturesque, and relieve the sordidness of its daily life with splendid exhibitions of the loftiest enthusiasm or with hideous deeds of brutality.

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"The reservedness of the Prince's nature, and the little education he then had in Courts made him unapt to make acquaintance with any of the Lords, who were thereby discouraged from applying themselves to him," says Clarendon.

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In Scotland, likewise, they have given themselves unto very ample and large diet, wherein as for some respect nature doth make them equal with us, so otherwise they far exceed us in over much and distemperate gormandize, and so engross their bodies, that divers of them do oft become unapt to any other purpose than to spend their time in large tabling and belly cheer.

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