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Definition of unapt in English: unaptadjectiveʌnˈapt Not appropriate or suitable in the circumstances. Example sentencesExamples - As one of you put it to me, they are unapt for more than just that.
- I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite.
- The one time I used it, thankfully, was for my high school yearbook (where it made a smashingly unapt contribution to the book's Art Nouveau theme.)
- Anthony's point is as simple as it is rueful: laughter is recreative, but only because our fallen nature is so unapt to take solace from contemplating Heaven.
Derivatives adverbʌnˈaptli Hence the satyric drama is not unaptly called ‘a playful tragedy’, being both in form and materials the same as tragedy. Example sentencesExamples - It's probably raining as a callow youth of 18 makes his way down to Sunshine Records, the most unaptly named emporium in the history of anything or everything.
- I left the school in the company of a pinch-faced biddy unaptly named Purdy; she had family near London, and would see me safely to Aunt Faith's before she went on her way.
- Our soldiers called this place Destruction Bay, and not unaptly, [sic] as there we saw the great execution the enemy suffered on the 11th and 13th October.
- By using jargons and such advanced literary figures of speech such as metaphors, one advertises his status, his know-how, to unsuspecting readers, even if he used it incorrectly or unaptly.
nounʌnˈaptnəs If there be any thing of humanity, of an aptness to do good to others, or an unaptness to do them hurt or to take pleasure in their infelicities or miseries, there are so many specimens of goodness that are derived. Example sentencesExamples - We did talk highly of Sir W. Batten's corruption, which Mr. Coventry did very kindly say that it might be only his heaviness and unaptness for business, that he do things without advice and rashly.
- And for the unaptness of it to receive the Impression of spiritual Truths, tho the What and the How of religious Mysterys be out of Sight; yet that they are such, is sufficiently visible.
- They are likewise reproved and threatened for their dulness and stupidity, and unaptness to profit by the instructions which the prophets gave them in God's name.
- These Chemical Secrets will never be fingered by those slothful or sottish despisers of them, by reason of their indisposition and unaptness for Manual operation.
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