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

• unaptness
  noun
• unaptly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of unapt

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

unapt

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 Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

This trifling conflict exhibits no unapt similitude of one of the aspects of the great evil conflict, the edge of which he was then approaching.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

Cautiously he makes the attempt, but, finding his fingers unapt at the task, solves his difficulty by aid of Nothung.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

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

From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn

And partly, because I am not unapt to think, that they may come abroad seasonably enough, though not for the Authors reputation, yet for other purposes.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Robert Boyle