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Another word for inapt

adjective

Not suited to circumstances:
improper, inappropriate, incongruous, inept, malapropos, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unfit, unseemly, unsuitable. Idiom: out of place. See agree, usual
Not suited to a given purpose:
ill-suited, inappropriate, unfit, unsuitable, unsuited. See ability
Lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results:
incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inept, inexpert, unskilled, unskillful, unworkmanlike. See ability

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Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.
He had already assisted Nathaniel Bowditch in his translation of the Mecanique celeste, and now produced a series of mathematical textbooks characterized by the brevity and terseness which made his teaching unattractive to inapt pupils.
If we accept the - Persian derivation of the term (which is advanced by Curzon as being perhaps the most plausible), pai-mir, or "the foot of mountain peaks," we have a definition which is by no means an inapt illustration of the actual facts of configuration.

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