The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infelicitous \In`fe*lic"i*tous\, a. Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1754, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + felicitous. Related: infelicitously.
Wiktionary
a. 1 unhappy or unfortunate. 2 inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done.
WordNet
adj. not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy" [ant: felicitous]
marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series [syn: unhappy]
Usage examples of "infelicitous".
These experienced governmental clericals would, like his experienced governmental security, fling their knowledge between the paidhi and the dedicated number-counters who sometimes sent letters specifically designed to entrap the paidhi into numerically infelicitous statements, which they, in the perverse self-importance of such experts, could then term significant.
So, you could say it's a very infelicitous confluence of belief systems from our point of view.
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