unapt

American  

[uhn-apt] / ʌnˈæpt /

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.

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unapt British  

/ ʌnˈæpt /

adjective

1. not suitable or qualified; unfitted

2. mentally slow

3. (postpositive; may take an infinitive) not disposed or likely (to)

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unaptly
  adverb
• unaptness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of unapt

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at un- ¹, apt

Example Sentences

He is quiet, and unapt to be struck with wonder at any of the actions of men.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

It is not, then, because sacred subjects are peculiarly unapt for poetry, that so few sacred poets are popular.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

According to Hodgson the buansu, as it is called in Nepal, runs in a long, lobbing canter, unapt at the double, and considers it inferior in speed to the jackal and fox.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

Whatever Ellis thought of himself, there were several other boys just as awkward, or at all events as unapt to learn military manners.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by Thomas, William I.

Nor is his mind dull or unapt; he will rebut or ridicule an adversary with astonishing shrewdness.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander