inaptness

Examples

• All

• The inaptness of the costume for the formal event was obvious to everyone.

• But the inaptness of this comparison again reveals something about the character of metaphorical truth affirmations and reveals the flaw in the pope's literalizing Jesus' choice of the Twelve as a formula excluding female ordination.

  Academic text (1994)

• Inaptness engulfs the progressive lunatic party; blame, blame, and disappear from the front line.

  Blog text (10)

• Her inaptness in choosing the right words during the interview cost her the job.

Synonyms

I

inappropriateness

vsinaptness

4 7.0

Not being suitable for a situation or place

is about general lack of fitness for a situation rather than moral wrongness

U

unsuitability

vsinaptness

1 5.5

A state in which something is not right for a particular use or situation

is the same meaning and used as an alternative form

I

inapplicability

vsinaptness

1 8.4

The state of not being suitable or useful in a particular situation

is about not fitting a purpose rather than being irrelevant

I

inappositeness

vsinaptness

9.9

The state of not being suitable for a situation or purpose

is the same meaning and used as an alternative form

U

unsuitableness

vsinaptness

7.4

The state of not being right for a use or situation

is the same meaning and used as an alternative form

I

inexpediency

vsinaptness

• Formal

9.9

A state of being unsuitable or unwise for a specific purpose

focuses on lack of fitness for a purpose rather than on being unwise

Antonyms

A

appropriateness

9 4.1

The quality of being suitable for a situation

S

suitability

8 3.2

How right something is for a particular use or situation

A

aptness

1 6.1

A quality that makes something fit a certain situation

How Appropriate

appropriateness

9 4.1

unsuitability

1 5.5

inappropriateness

4 7.0

inaptness

• Formal

9.1

clumsiness

3 3.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology