inapposite

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈæpəzɪt/(US)

Definition of inapposite

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
    “1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;”
    “But [Assistant to the Solicitor General Austin] Raynor relied on this distinction – whether proceedings are pending, or all proceedings have ended – to argue that the court’s 2001 decision interpreting the post-removal order statute, Zadvydas v. Davis, was inapposite.”

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Etymology

From in- + apposite.

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