inapposite en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɪnˈæpəzɪt/ (US)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English apposite English inapposite From in- + apposite.
Meanings
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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.
2022 December 12, Shalini Bhargava Ray, “Justices grapple with the legacy of a 2001 immigration detention case”, in SCOTUSblog:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most inapposite | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more inapposite | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (5)
de unangemessen (inappropriate) · sv olämplig (inappropriate) · sv opassande (inappropriate) · bg неуместен (inappropriate) · bg неподходящ (inappropriate)