Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not pertinent; unsuitable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent: as, an inapposite argument.
Wiktionary
- adj. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of an inappropriate or misapplied nature
Etymologies
- negative in- + apposite (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The latter is dubbed, with a propensity for the pinpoint inapposite that racing shares primarily with Prince Philip, the Filly Factor.”
The Guardian: The landmarks and pitfalls of racing's gender agenda | Lydia Hislop
“Kurt Weill constructed "Bilbao Song" for his 1929 musical comedy "Happy End" out of two distinct, inapposite melodies: a fast, choppy foxtrot and a slow, romantic quasi-bolero.”
The Wall Street Journal: Female Leads, Classic Beats, Gil at St. Pete's
“The post in fact barely more than a largely inapposite display of reflexive hostility (but not anti-semitism! happy?) that fails to engage barely at all with what LW says except to excerpt a few questionable quotes out of context.”
“You can stop polluting the thread with inapposite analogies now.”
“Any analogies to correcting something like Google Maps is inapposite.”
“John Paul II's thoughts are inapposite to mine but maybe I was not clear enough in my first post.”
“I kept reading after the first 60 pages just to see what hilariously inapposite imagery he could come up with next.”
GR5: The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom « In The Gloaming Podcasts
“Jack: As far as I can tell, the reference to Hamdi is inapposite.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
“As far as I can tell, the reference to Hamdi is inapposite.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
“This turns out to be an inapposite example, notwithstanding its amusement value.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inapposite’.
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Sima Yi's list
A list of words I find unusual and interesting.
dysphemism, hapax legomenon, rill, repristinate, exuviate, phillipic, fillip, cyanobacteria, prokaryotic, onomasticon, bibliotics, diplomatics and 45 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Words
apoplectic, absolve, accentuate, accost, acrimony, adjudicate, adulate, affront, agrarian, alacrity, ambivalence, ascetic and 120 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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Miscellanea
Pretty words. Words I really, really like.
causerie, persiflage, prickmedainty, chanteuse, menstruum, deliquesce, coruscant, umber, radiatrix, zoopsia, diamanté, desex and 50 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inapposite.
yarb Citation on spew. Jul 4, 2008