inapplicable
2
6.7
- adjective
- /ˌɪnəˈplɪkəbl/
:
inaplicable
- Population growth models based on data from 1950-1970 are inapplicable to population growth patterns in 2009.
- the clause is inapplicable
- the concept is inapplicable
- the rule is inapplicable
Or is the word have in Latin actually hobbering, inadequate and inapplicable there and misleading?
- Or is the word have in Latin actually hobbering, inadequate and inapplicable there and misleading?
Examples
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Accordingly, these practitioners perceived these planning methods as inapplicable in the school setting.
Academic text (1991) -
An earlier case had held the salary statute to be inapplicable to the Middlesex County Health Department.
Academic text (2002) -
It's totally inapplicable to anything that's going on here and it's dumb.
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Justice Reed's logic was simply inapplicable to the facts.
Academic text (2017) -
Still, generalizations can be useful if one recognizes that they may be inapplicable in any given situation.
Academic text (1995) -
In several contexts, Congress, as well as agencies and courts, could reasonably find the default principles inapplicable.
Academic text (2001) -
There are limits beyond which societal fragmentation and political distance render the concept inapplicable.
Academic text (1992) -
Some held that because China practiced socialism, Hong Kong's systems were largely inapplicable to the mainland.
Academic text (2000) -
So they avoided pork at restaurants if they could, but otherwise regarded kosher rules as inapplicable in non-Jewish contexts.
Academic text (1999) -
The rules of the game were inapplicable to the new format, so we had to create our own.
Synonyms
32
4.2
Not related to the subject or situation
4
7.3
Not related to the topic being discussed
1
9.9
Not suitable for a situation and therefore not important to the topic
Not related to what is being discussed
Has nothing to do with the topic being discussed
Antonyms
How Applicable
84
4.4
172
1.8
354
3.7
20
2.6
2
6.7
355
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
inapplicable = applicable (semi-transparent) = in + applic + able
The negative prefix 'in-' straightforwardly changes 'applicable' to mean 'not applicable'.
Etymology
The word inapplicable is made from the prefix in- meaning 'not', the verb apply meaning 'to use for a purpose', and the ending -able meaning 'able to'. So, inapplicable means 'not able to be used' in a situation or 'not relevant'.