Usually means: Not suitable or appropriate; irrelevant.
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  1. inapposite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inapposite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inapposite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inapposite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inapposite: Vocabulary.com
  6. inapposite: Wordnik
  7. inapposite: Wiktionary
  8. inapposite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inapposite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inapposite: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Inapposite, inapposite: Dictionary.com
  12. Inapposite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. inapposite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. inapposite: Rhymezone
  15. Inapposite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. inapposite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. inapposite: Free Dictionary
  18. inapposite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. inapposite: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inapposite: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inapposite)

▸ adjective:  inappropriate, not suitable for the situation

Similar:
malapropos, out of place, unapposite, inappropriate, inappropo, improper, unappropriate, inopportune, inapropo, uncongenial, more...

Opposite:
relevant, pertinent, germane, material

Types:
irrelevant, immaterial, unrelated, disconnected, orthogonal, more...

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Similar:
malapropos, out of place, unapposite, inappropriate, inappropo, improper, unappropriate, inopportune, inapropo, uncongenial, more...

Opposite:
relevant, pertinent, germane, material

Types:
irrelevant, immaterial, unrelated, disconnected, orthogonal, more...



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