Usually means: Not appropriate or well-suited.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word infelicitous:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. infelicitous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. infelicitous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infelicitous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infelicitous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. infelicitous: Vocabulary.com
  6. infelicitous: Wordnik
  7. infelicitous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. infelicitous: Wiktionary
  9. infelicitous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. infelicitous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. infelicitous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Infelicitous, infelicitous: Dictionary.com
  13. Infelicitous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. infelicitous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. infelicitous: Rhymezone
  16. Infelicitous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. infelicitous: Free Dictionary
  18. infelicitous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. infelicitous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. infelicitous: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infelicitous: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infelicitous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (infelicitous)

adjective:  Unhappy or unfortunate.
adjective:  Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: not semantically and pragmatically coherent.

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