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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not applicable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not applicable; incapable of being or not proper to be applied; not suited or suitable; not fitting the case: as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.
  • Synonyms Unsuitable, inappropriate, inapposite, irrelevant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not capable of being applied

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Examples

  • Even in Christianity, beyond the priestly privilege which belongs to all believers, I object to the ministers of any denomination or church calling themselves or being called "priests;" and much more is the name inapplicable to the sramanas or bhikshus of

    A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian

  • "I had supposed the appellation inapplicable to a gentleman!" answered Sercombe, with entire coolness.

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • "I had supposed the appellation inapplicable to a gentleman!" answered Sercombe, with entire coolness.

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864

  • Inseparable accidents are those which — although we know of no connection between them and the attributes constitutive of the species, and although, therefore, so far as we are aware, they might be absent without making the name inapplicable and the species a different species — are yet never in fact known to be absent.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • Inseparable accidents are those which — although we know of no connexion between them and the attributes constitutive of the species, and although, therefore, so far as we are aware, they might be absent without making the name inapplicable and the species a different species — are yet never in fact known to be absent.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

  • Nor was the phrase inapplicable; for, in a letter, to which I have mislaid the reference, the Earl of Northumberland writes to the King and

    Marmion Walter Scott 1801

  • “priests;” and much more is the name inapplicable to the sramanas or bhikshus of Buddhism which acknowledges no God in the universe, no soul in man, and has no services of sacrifice or prayer in its worship.

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • Las Casas found this definition inapplicable to the Indians but fit for the Spaniards, who unleashed “massacres” against the harmless indigenes.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Las Casas found this definition inapplicable to the Indians but fit for the Spaniards, who unleashed “massacres” against the harmless indigenes.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Bound and measure are terms inapplicable to the Divine sacrifice.

    The Reformed Evangelist 2009

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