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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsuited
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
totally
▪ He was totally unsuited for the job.
▪ She was totally unsuited to anything where she had to organize herself.
▪ We were totally unsuited: there was no point in pretending any longer.
▪ Richard and I were totally unsuited, we cramped each other, preventing further growth, we were better apart.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are these rules unsuited to modern medicine?
▪ Attendance is better than 21, 000 a game in the SkyDome, a cavernous building unsuited for basketball.
▪ Few disciples followed him, his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left.
▪ Mary says that he is unsuited for the clergy and will not marry him if he enters that field.
▪ She was totally unsuited to anything where she had to organize herself.
▪ Temperamentally unsuited for compromise, Tatum went on the offensive.
▪ The two of them seemed so entirely unsuited to each other that I quickly discarded the unbidden image of their marital bed.
▪ They also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsuited

"unfit," 1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of suit (v.).

Wiktionary
unsuited

a. 1 Not suited to a specific purpose. 2 Not compatible; mismatched. 3 Not wearing a suit.

WordNet
unsuited

adj. not easy to combine harmoniously [syn: ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated]

Usage examples of "unsuited".

The others had gone inboard and unsuited when Quent finally finished clearing the bleeder shaft.

The private owners of land unsuited to agriculture, once forested and now impoverished or denuded, should be encouraged by practical instruction, adjustment of taxation, and in other proper ways, to undertake the reforesting thereof.

And at sight of that beautiful creature, sleeping and smiling in her sleep, the earthy, hothouse fumes steeping the mind of one perpetually serving in an atmosphere unsuited to her natural growth, dispersed.

The view that Adams was unsuited to prepare the nation for war and that Hamilton, by contrast, was the ideal choice for second-in-command was shared by McHenry and Secretary Pickering alike.

Three of the strongest blacks had gripped the handholes cut into the stone curiously unsuited to human hands-- when Belit sprang back with a sharp cry.

Previous reports had stated that the island was unsuited for paratroop landings, and the descent was a surprise.

Even the appendages Sulu had so casually pronounced handgrips looked unsuited to anything Chekov recognized as a hand, much less anything he would have called gripping.

As the scouts poured into the draft room, and stuffed their lower lips with chaw, a catcher with a body deemed by all of baseball to be unsuited to the game sat waiting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

They've got military-grade impellers, compensators, and particle shielding and minimal sidewalls, but they aren't warships and they are totally unsuited to this sort of task.

Roger and Marie seemed unsuited to California, doubly unsuited to this century, yet they drove a red Jaguar, had been spotted attending excruciatingly stupid big budget action movies, and functioned fairly well as citizens of the new millennium.

Nell, less strikingly attired in satin and blonde lace, knew that if Lady Chudleigh should be at the masquerade she would unhesitatingly condemn this toilette as being totally unsuited to a young lady in her first season, for it was cut indecorously low, besides being worn over the most diaphanous of petticoats.

She wore a white silk dress with long sleeves and a cowl neck, a nun's garment that acquired the startling effect of an evening gown only by being so flagrantly unsuited to that purpose.

They were made with T-straps and Cuban heels, entirely unsuited for walking in the sand.

At last Jubal stood on a municipal landing flat sweltering in winter clothes unsuited to the blazing sun overhead, noted that palm trees still looked like a poor grade of feather duster, regarded bleakly the ocean beyond them, thinking that it was a dirty unstable mass of water, certainly contaminated with grape fruit shells and human excrement even though he couldn't see such at this distance-and wondered what to do next.

The laurel water made by distillation is a dangerous poison, and is so variable in strength, that it is unsuited for administration as a medicinal agent.