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infelicitous, a.|ɪnfɪˈlɪsɪtəs|
[f. in-3 + felicitous: cf. next.]
Unhappy, unfortunate; esp. not happily suited to the occasion or circumstances; not apt or appropriate: the opposite of felicitous.
1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. ix. 386 Prompted to deny with indignation the allegation of their infelicitous position. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 600 He..conceived the infelicitous idea of making an abridged translation. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxvi. 79 The infelicitous wife who had produced nothing but daughters. 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1290/1 His illustration..is singularly infelicitous.
Hence infeˈlicitously adv., unhappily, inaptly.
a1834Coleridge Church & State (1839) 192 The second power..commonly but most infelicitously called irritability. 1841H. F. Chorley Music & Manners (1844) III. 251 [It] dramatised the solemn text not infelicitously. |