Dictionary

inapplicable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English applicable English inapplicable From in- + applicable.

Meanings

1. Not applicable; that does not apply or cannot be applied; unsuitable or irrelevant.
   • In this case, y(#92;cdot) is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices. 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 141:
   • The argument is inapplicable to the case.

Forms

Deriveds

inapplicableness · inapplicably

Synonyms

unapplicable

Translations (18)

gl inaplicábel (not applicable) · it inapplicabile (not applicable) · de unpassend (not applicable) · gl inaplicable (not applicable) · pl nieodpowiedni (not applicable) · es inaplicable (not applicable) · ko 적용할 수 없는 (not applicable) · pt inaplicável (not applicable) · gv neuyesh (not applicable) · hu alkalmazhatatlan (not applicable) · ro neaplicabil (not applicable) · de unanwendbar (not applicable) · fr inapplicable (not applicable) · gv neuchooie (not applicable) · de ungeeignet (not applicable) · nb uanvendelig (not applicable) · bg неприложим (not applicable) · ca inaplicable (not applicable)