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inaptness

/in-apt/US // ɪnˈæpt //UK // (ɪnˈæpt) //

无能,不足之处,不足,不合时宜

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not apt or fitting.
    • : without aptitude or capacity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininadequacy

Examples

  • Everybody on TV seemed to like it, but I found it ... not exactly inappropriate, but inapt.

  • Nor did we find this description at all inapt as we drove over its excellent roads during the fine July weather.

  • He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee.

  • This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese-box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt.

  • Hurrying to the spot I met with a little adventure which it may not be inapt to relate.

  • But this latter comparison, as I have shown, was curiously inapt if intended to cover the whole direction of the enterprise.