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Definition of unfit in English: unfitadjectiveʌnˈfɪtˌənˈfɪt 1(of a thing) not of the necessary quality or standard to meet a particular purpose. the land is unfit for food crops Example sentencesExamples - I could see nothing in the state of the club that would have allowed him to declare it unfit for play under the current rules.
- In fact, by international standards, it is unfit for human consumption because of its high acidity.
- The complainant explained that the sheep had recently been wormed and vaccinated so the meat is unfit for human consumption.
- Instead, the official said, the marines had apparently broken UN seals of containers of low-grade uranium that the Iraqis had been allowed to keep because it was unfit for weapons use.
- Glasgow City Council's secure unit in Ayrshire is ageing and unfit for its purpose.
- The same runoff going into the river, diluted with 73 percent less water, would have seriously deteriorated water quality until it was unfit for human contact.
- In August, the landlord removed the entire stairwell, prompting City of Montreal building inspectors to declare her apartment unfit for habitation.
- In a report, officers said many of the council's buildings were ‘of a poor standard, unattractive to young people, and some are unfit for purpose’.
- The container was unfit for its intended purpose, having no internal door handle or other means of escape and no external light or other means of drawing attention to the emergency.
- Option three would mean the staining of low risk red meat by-products on the grounds that they too were unfit for human consumption and could be fraudulently diverted into the human food chain.
- Until I was 11 years old we lived next door to the surgery, which was purpose built although rather unfit for its function.
- We all know that lakes Rotorua and Taupo are seriously degenerating, with algal blooms in some places and water quality that is unfit for human contact.
- An estimated 60,000 children in Yorkshire and Humberside are living in homes classified as being unfit for human habitation, a leading housing charity has warned.
- They advised the farmers to use canal water as the underground water was unfit for agriculture purpose.
- There's no question that Scottish children are eating meat that is unfit for human consumption and potentially dangerous.
- This is why he can eat food that others often deem is unfit for human consumption, and still find it delicious.
- ‘It is unfit for human habitation and is being boarded up on the grounds of public health,’ said the 35-year-old.
- It means the cockle quality has never been tested so the molluscs are deemed unfit for human consumption.
- As a doctor, I am often asked why people buy computer hardware that turns out to be totally unfit for the purpose for which it was obtained.
- Farmers had been using underground water to irrigate cotton and paddy crops even though underground water was unfit for agricultural use due to high fluoride contents.
Synonyms unsuitable for, unsuited to, inappropriate to, ill-suited to, ill-adapted to, unequipped for, inadequate for, unprepared for, unfitted for, not designed for, ineligible for, unworthy of - 1.1 (of a person) not having the requisite qualities or skills to undertake something competently.
she is unfit to have care and control of her children Example sentencesExamples - He just lost a job he was unfit for in the first place.
- Jenny Macklin, yesterday demonstrated that - like her hospitalised leader - she is unfit for high office.
- There are some people that think they are unfit for the kingdom of God.
- Shuttleworth had claimed benefit saying she was unfit for work, but had been working when she made her claim.
- The 51-year-old has been told by a West Yorkshire police medical officer that he is unfit for front line duties.
- Kenneth Grant, prosecuting, said Peterson had been claiming income support and housing and council tax benefits after declaring she was unfit for work.
- This conduct was outrageous and confirms he is demonstrably unfit for office.
- If that's what Costa wants, he's unfit for office.
- He is unfit for the office he holds and should be called on the mat before Congress for this outrage.
- Little extra comment is required beyond observing that anyone who believes that the simple election of a Labour government in itself transforms a country are themselves clearly unfit for office.
- It's likely that in the European Parliament, the U.S. president would be considered unfit for his job on account of his religious beliefs.
- Homeless people are usually unfit for any type of labor that doesn't require drunkenly swaying from side to side and ranting incoherently.
- The manner of Hollingworth's departure offers resounding evidence that he was unfit for the position.
- If they are over the drink-drive limit they are unfit for duty.
- The former clerk of a small town council who was paid more than a Cabinet Minister was ordered to repay £195,000 yesterday after a judge told him he was unfit for public office.
- The Pentagon today acknowledged that nearly all Iraqi military and police units are simply unfit for battle against insurgents without U.S. help.
- While the batters exhibited marked improvements in temperament, they are still unfit for the long haul.
- It is because we can see how they run their own party and how they respond to such crises, that we can see that they are unfit for office.
- They accepted the findings of a psychiatrist that she was unfit for work, and would be for some time to come.
- The quantity and quality of the food intake make them totally unfit for studies or sports.
Synonyms unsuitable for, unsuited to, inappropriate to, ill-suited to, ill-adapted to, unequipped for, inadequate for, unprepared for, unfitted for, not designed for, ineligible for, unworthy of
2(of a person) not in good physical condition, typically as a result of failure to take regular exercise. the increase in the number of unfit and overweight children is alarming Example sentencesExamples - This is a result of an unhealthy lifestyle, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking and being physically unfit.
- I really think I need to do some exercise, at the moment I'm seriously unfit.
- It's not usually dangerous, but it can be if someone is unfit and has an existing condition or already has a bowel condition.
- And there was me, overweight, unfit, in my old clothes.
- Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy.
- There are three common reasons for a player being weary: the player is sick, didn't sleep or is physically unfit.
- As to the form of exercise, it is clearly undesirable for an unfit person to leap straight into short-term, high-intensity activity.
- The federal government is concerned with an epidemic of overweight, unfit Canadians.
- And when we're at home, according to Colm, we're overweight, unfit, drink too much and the weather is lousy.
- While physically unfit people can bowl high scores, they're not the ones who master the game and last.
- This is why a fit person can do more exercise without getting breathless than an unfit person can.
- The lower ranges are for unfit or frail persons who are just beginning an exercise program.
- But I don't think there is a great need for gnashing and wailing of teeth over people like me who are slightly overweight, slightly unfit.
- There has been for some time, a general consensus that ‘large’ people are unfit, unhealthy, fat and slobby because they eat too much.
- Physically unfit women at unhealthy weights have higher chronic disease risk.
- He's a Chilean hero, cruelly held here for more than a year, in squalor, against his will, while mentally weak and physically unfit.
- I've reversed my deterioration into becoming a mid-30s bloater, and am now merely slightly overweight and unfit.
- Seven backpackers briefly detained along with the eight taken by the rebels said they were allowed to go because they were physically unfit or lacked sturdy walking shoes.
- Alabama is one of the leaders in numbers of overweight and unfit people.
- Diabetes can run in families but can also be developed, particularly by the elderly, and people who are overweight and unfit.
Synonyms unhealthy, out of condition, out of shape, in poor condition, in poor shape, flabby, debilitated, weak, infirm, decrepit
verbunfitted, unfitting, unfitsʌnˈfɪtˌənˈfɪt [with object]archaic Make (something or someone) unsuitable; disqualify. they say that we are trying to give poor children tastes which will only unfit them for a life of hardship and toil Example sentencesExamples - And that, Frankfurt says, is what makes it so dangerous: it unfits a person for telling the truth.
- Educated young people who had failed to get into university were unfitted by their education and aspirations to enter industry.
- But though, like Holmes, Hamlet is cleverer than everyone around him, his emotionalism and his fondness for poetic flights would unfit him as a private detective.
- He later noted in diary entries written during the draft riots that ‘Wool was unfitted by age for such duties though patriotic and well-disposed.’
Derivatives adverbʌnˈfɪtliˌənˈfɪtli The first verse of this chapter some join to the foregoing chapter, and make it (not unfitly) the close of that. Example sentencesExamples - The enlightened throughout the world will concur in the opinion that this proud and most honourable badge was most unfitly bestowed.
- A minute discussion of this subject would be a serious task; but if, as before, I am to give only an outline, the subject may not unfitly be summed up as follows.
- We have gathered several facts which may not unfitly be woven into parables, and made to illustrate truth.
- I had in my days not unfitly been likened to Sir Philip, only with this difference - that I had the better leg and more amiable face.
nounʌnˈfɪtnəsˌənˈfɪtnəs But a Foreign Minister who allows it to affect judgment on policy issues of such consequence proclaims his or her unfitness for the office. Example sentencesExamples - Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast - and our unfitness to rule it
- The toytown politicians who dreamed it up have demonstrated their unfitness to govern us, and should be sent packing at the next election.
- These new proposals should go a long way to help tackle problems of unfitness and disrepair which are all too common in this sector.
- The main body of complaints of unfitness to practice by reason of physical or mental disability were linked to substance abuse, she said.
Definition of unfit in US English: unfitadjectiveˌənˈfɪtˌənˈfit 1predicative (of a thing) not of the necessary quality or standard to meet a particular purpose. the land is unfit for food crops Example sentencesExamples - Option three would mean the staining of low risk red meat by-products on the grounds that they too were unfit for human consumption and could be fraudulently diverted into the human food chain.
- They advised the farmers to use canal water as the underground water was unfit for agriculture purpose.
- There's no question that Scottish children are eating meat that is unfit for human consumption and potentially dangerous.
- ‘It is unfit for human habitation and is being boarded up on the grounds of public health,’ said the 35-year-old.
- The complainant explained that the sheep had recently been wormed and vaccinated so the meat is unfit for human consumption.
- In fact, by international standards, it is unfit for human consumption because of its high acidity.
- We all know that lakes Rotorua and Taupo are seriously degenerating, with algal blooms in some places and water quality that is unfit for human contact.
- Glasgow City Council's secure unit in Ayrshire is ageing and unfit for its purpose.
- Until I was 11 years old we lived next door to the surgery, which was purpose built although rather unfit for its function.
- In August, the landlord removed the entire stairwell, prompting City of Montreal building inspectors to declare her apartment unfit for habitation.
- Farmers had been using underground water to irrigate cotton and paddy crops even though underground water was unfit for agricultural use due to high fluoride contents.
- This is why he can eat food that others often deem is unfit for human consumption, and still find it delicious.
- Instead, the official said, the marines had apparently broken UN seals of containers of low-grade uranium that the Iraqis had been allowed to keep because it was unfit for weapons use.
- In a report, officers said many of the council's buildings were ‘of a poor standard, unattractive to young people, and some are unfit for purpose’.
- The same runoff going into the river, diluted with 73 percent less water, would have seriously deteriorated water quality until it was unfit for human contact.
- The container was unfit for its intended purpose, having no internal door handle or other means of escape and no external light or other means of drawing attention to the emergency.
- An estimated 60,000 children in Yorkshire and Humberside are living in homes classified as being unfit for human habitation, a leading housing charity has warned.
- As a doctor, I am often asked why people buy computer hardware that turns out to be totally unfit for the purpose for which it was obtained.
- I could see nothing in the state of the club that would have allowed him to declare it unfit for play under the current rules.
- It means the cockle quality has never been tested so the molluscs are deemed unfit for human consumption.
Synonyms unsuitable for, unsuited to, inappropriate to, ill-suited to, ill-adapted to, unequipped for, inadequate for, unprepared for, unfitted for, not designed for, ineligible for, unworthy of - 1.1 (of a person) not having the requisite qualities or skills to undertake something competently.
she is unfit to have care and control of her children Example sentencesExamples - The former clerk of a small town council who was paid more than a Cabinet Minister was ordered to repay £195,000 yesterday after a judge told him he was unfit for public office.
- He just lost a job he was unfit for in the first place.
- While the batters exhibited marked improvements in temperament, they are still unfit for the long haul.
- Little extra comment is required beyond observing that anyone who believes that the simple election of a Labour government in itself transforms a country are themselves clearly unfit for office.
- The 51-year-old has been told by a West Yorkshire police medical officer that he is unfit for front line duties.
- The manner of Hollingworth's departure offers resounding evidence that he was unfit for the position.
- He is unfit for the office he holds and should be called on the mat before Congress for this outrage.
- It's likely that in the European Parliament, the U.S. president would be considered unfit for his job on account of his religious beliefs.
- There are some people that think they are unfit for the kingdom of God.
- Shuttleworth had claimed benefit saying she was unfit for work, but had been working when she made her claim.
- If they are over the drink-drive limit they are unfit for duty.
- They accepted the findings of a psychiatrist that she was unfit for work, and would be for some time to come.
- Kenneth Grant, prosecuting, said Peterson had been claiming income support and housing and council tax benefits after declaring she was unfit for work.
- The quantity and quality of the food intake make them totally unfit for studies or sports.
- If that's what Costa wants, he's unfit for office.
- It is because we can see how they run their own party and how they respond to such crises, that we can see that they are unfit for office.
- The Pentagon today acknowledged that nearly all Iraqi military and police units are simply unfit for battle against insurgents without U.S. help.
- This conduct was outrageous and confirms he is demonstrably unfit for office.
- Jenny Macklin, yesterday demonstrated that - like her hospitalised leader - she is unfit for high office.
- Homeless people are usually unfit for any type of labor that doesn't require drunkenly swaying from side to side and ranting incoherently.
Synonyms unsuitable for, unsuited to, inappropriate to, ill-suited to, ill-adapted to, unequipped for, inadequate for, unprepared for, unfitted for, not designed for, ineligible for, unworthy of - 1.2Biology (of a species) not able to produce viable offspring or survive in a particular environment.
Example sentencesExamples - Species become unfit to survive in changing environments.
2(of a person) not in good physical condition, typically as a result of failure to exercise regularly. Example sentencesExamples - He's a Chilean hero, cruelly held here for more than a year, in squalor, against his will, while mentally weak and physically unfit.
- The lower ranges are for unfit or frail persons who are just beginning an exercise program.
- And there was me, overweight, unfit, in my old clothes.
- I've reversed my deterioration into becoming a mid-30s bloater, and am now merely slightly overweight and unfit.
- This is why a fit person can do more exercise without getting breathless than an unfit person can.
- It's not usually dangerous, but it can be if someone is unfit and has an existing condition or already has a bowel condition.
- Seven backpackers briefly detained along with the eight taken by the rebels said they were allowed to go because they were physically unfit or lacked sturdy walking shoes.
- While physically unfit people can bowl high scores, they're not the ones who master the game and last.
- Physically unfit women at unhealthy weights have higher chronic disease risk.
- There are three common reasons for a player being weary: the player is sick, didn't sleep or is physically unfit.
- This is a result of an unhealthy lifestyle, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking and being physically unfit.
- I really think I need to do some exercise, at the moment I'm seriously unfit.
- But I don't think there is a great need for gnashing and wailing of teeth over people like me who are slightly overweight, slightly unfit.
- Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy.
- And when we're at home, according to Colm, we're overweight, unfit, drink too much and the weather is lousy.
- Alabama is one of the leaders in numbers of overweight and unfit people.
- The federal government is concerned with an epidemic of overweight, unfit Canadians.
- There has been for some time, a general consensus that ‘large’ people are unfit, unhealthy, fat and slobby because they eat too much.
- Diabetes can run in families but can also be developed, particularly by the elderly, and people who are overweight and unfit.
- As to the form of exercise, it is clearly undesirable for an unfit person to leap straight into short-term, high-intensity activity.
Synonyms unhealthy, out of condition, out of shape, in poor condition, in poor shape, flabby, debilitated, weak, infirm, decrepit
verbˌənˈfɪtˌənˈfit [with object]archaic Make (something or someone) unsuitable; disqualify. Example sentencesExamples - And that, Frankfurt says, is what makes it so dangerous: it unfits a person for telling the truth.
- Educated young people who had failed to get into university were unfitted by their education and aspirations to enter industry.
- He later noted in diary entries written during the draft riots that ‘Wool was unfitted by age for such duties though patriotic and well-disposed.’
- But though, like Holmes, Hamlet is cleverer than everyone around him, his emotionalism and his fondness for poetic flights would unfit him as a private detective.
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