Crossword clues for inapt
inapt
- It's not appropriate to nod off during sex
- It's not appropriate to sleep in it
- Improper to take forty winks in it
- I go out for a bit and sweat, ultimately unfit?
- Doze off during it? Not appropriate
- To snooze during sex is awkward
- Ungentlemanly spilling of a pint
- Off the mark
- Not right
- Uncalled for
- Hardly suitable
- Not suited
- Far from fitting
- Not pertinent
- Not applicable
- Hardly fitting
- Not germane
- Poorly chosen, as a phrase
- Paint (anag)
- Not congruous
- Not at all suitable
- Not at all appropriate
- Lacking fitness
- Hardly relevant
- Hardly appropriate
- Not suitable
- Wrong for the situation
- Unfitting
- Not relevant
- Unsuitable and inappropriate
- Not fitting
- Out of place
- Ill-suited
- Not well-put
- Malapropos
- Unsuited
- Not on point
- Not perfectly put
- A little off
- Not appropriate
- Clumsy
- Not qualified
- Lacking skill
- Mixed paint is not suitable
- Not suitable in a part
- Not appropriate to snooze with relations around
- Not appropriate to have forty winks in it
- Not appropriate one should have dozed at audition
- Awkward getting some sleep in it
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inapt
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both the barrister, and this court, accept with hindsight that his intervention was perhaps inapt or unfortunate.
▪ In this respect, the oft-quoted cathedral metaphor is not inapt.
▪ Yet it is not altogether inapt that the Hymn of Riego became the anthem of liberalism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inapt
Inapt \In*apt"\, a. [Pref. in- not + apt: cf. F. inapte. Cf. Inept.] Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept. -- In*apt"ly, adv. -- In*apt"ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
inapt
a. unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.
WordNet
inapt
adj. not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inept, ill-chosen]
Usage examples of "inapt".
It was an almost cruelly inapt inspiration—the church was about to be destroyed.
It was an almost cruelly inapt inspiration-the church was about to be destroyed.