Inapt Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-ăpt
Not suited to a given purpose
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ill-suited
  2. inappropriate
  3. unfit
  4. unsuitable
  5. unsuited
Lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. incapable
  2. incompetent
  3. inefficient
  4. inept
  5. inexpert
  6. unskilled
  7. unskillful
  8. unworkmanlike
Antonyms:
  1. competent
  2. apt
  3. suitable
  4. happy
  5. suited

Words Related to Inapt

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Inapt Sentence Examples

  • Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.

  • The tram lay on it like a log. *** A poor smile, you say - But not inapt.

  • 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.