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unapt

[uhn-apt]
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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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Origin of unapt

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at un-1, apt
Related formsun·apt·ly, adverbun·apt·ness, noun
Can be confusedinapt inept unapt
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Related Words

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Examples from the Web for unapt

Historical Examples

  • “No unapt picture this, of the life of many of us, Hurry,” said my companion.

    Hurricane Hurry

    W.H.G. Kingston

  • A most merciful man, as ready to forgive as unapt to take or give offence.

    George Fox

    George Fox

  • This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.

    Biographia Literaria

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • The poet's chaos was no unapt emblem of the state of my mind.

    Wieland; or The Transformation

    Charles Brockden Brown

  • Archy is as unapt to give out a secret as the rock is to unlock its waters.

British Dictionary definitions for unapt

unapt

adjective
  1. (usually postpositive often foll by for) not suitable or qualified; unfitted
  2. mentally slow
  3. (postpositive; may take an infinitive) not disposed or likely (to)
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Derived Formsunaptly, adverbunaptness, noun
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