单词 | unfit |
释义 | unfit (once / 613 pages) adjv If someone is unfit, they're not qualified. You're unfit for a job as an ice cream truck driver if your only driving experience has been steering a bumper car at an amusement park. Farmland can be described as unfit for planting if it's been leached of nutrients, and a babysitter might be accused of being unfit if he gets distracted and loses track of his charges on the playground. In either case, the unfit thing or person doesn't meet the necessary requirements or standards. Another way to be unfit is to be out of shape or in poor physical condition. Fit can mean both "suitable" and "in good shape." WORD FAMILYunfit: unfitly, unfitness, unfits, unfitted, unfitting+/fit: fitful, fitly, fitness, fits, fitted, fitter, fittest, fitting, misfit, refit, unfit/fitful: fitfully, fitfulness/fitness: fitnesses/fitter: fitters/fitting: fittingly, fittingness, fittings, ill-fitting/misfit: misfits, misfitted, misfitting/refit: refits, refitted, refitting/unfitness: unfitnesses/unfitting: unfittingly USAGE EXAMPLESOpposition lawmakers held up Monday’s reported police probe as a sign that Mr. Netanyahu was unfit to lead. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Followers of the eugenics campaign believed that people they deemed genetically “unfit” shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce. Los Angeles Times(Dec 26, 2016) Though unfit to play, he wrote that that doctor declared him eligible to return, which allowed the Bengals to release him. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1adj below the required standards for a purpose an unfit parent unfit for human consumption Syn|Ant subhuman unfit for human beings unsuitablenot meant or adapted for a particular purpose fit meeting adequate standards for a purpose appropriatesuitable for a particular person or place or condition etc acceptableadequate for the purpose suitable, suitedmeant or adapted for an occasion or use worthyhaving qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way 2adj not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition fat and very unfit certified as unfit for army service drunk and unfit for service Syn|Ant afflicted, impaired mentally or physically unfit apractic, apraxichaving uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowleggedhave legs that curve outward at the knees broken-backed(of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting, lamedisabled in the feet or legs crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphoticcharacteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column disabled, handicappedincapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness gammy(British informal) sore or lame knock-kneedhaving the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart flabby, flaccid, softout of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance spavined(of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint dipped, lordotic, swayback, swaybackedhaving abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) maimed, mutilatedhaving a part of the body crippled or disabled unhealthynot in or exhibiting good health in body or mind unsoundnot sound financially ill, sickaffected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function fit physically and mentally sound or healthy able, able-bodiedhaving a strong healthy body conditioned, in conditionphysically fit healthyhaving or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease soundfinancially secure and safe wellin good health especially after having suffered illness or injury 3adj physically unsound or diseased Syn bad, unsound unhealthy not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind 4v make unfit or unsuitable Syn|Ant|Hyper disqualify, indispose dispose, qualify make fit or prepared alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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