unfitted

comparative more unfitted · superlative most unfitted

1. Not suited, not fit (for something).

   His lack of editorial knowledge makes him doubly unfitted for the role for which he is reportedly being groomed.

   2016 August 26, Stephen Glover, The Daily Mail, London

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   […] let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest […]. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto, the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same.

   1776, Thomas Paine, “On the Origin and Design of Government in General”, in Common Sense

   You have both warm hearts and benevolent feelings; and, Fanny, who that heard him read, and saw you listen to Shakespeare the other night, will think you unfitted as companions?

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 82–83

   Society should study reasonable and just ways of discouraging parenthood on the part of those who are seriously unfitted to cope with its responsibilities.

   1946 February 4, “Protestant Babies”, in Time

2. not comparableNot customized, tailored or cut to fit.

   In the Eighties, the unfitted suits, flat-cut in the style of traditional kimonos and proposed by Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, formed the baggy blueprint for a decade of men’s designs, and the outfit of choice for a generation of creative directors and male fashion editors.

   2015 May 17, Alexander Fury, “Man from Japan: How to dress like a Tokyo Joe”, in The Independent, London

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   As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look of unostentatious but expensive elegance that goes beyond mere chic. Most little nothings today are essentially grown-up versions of sleeveless, high-necklined junior dresses, unfitted, but figure-suggesting.

   1961 February 26, “Nothing, Something, Everything”, in Time

3. datednot comparablerail transportOf trains, or wagons in the train, not having a through brake pipe, or brakes on the wagons that can be operated from the locomotive (the wagons did have handbrakes however).

   Basically, heavy unfitted trains are hauled by ex-G.W.R, ex-L.M.R. or ex W.D. 2-8-0s and fast freights by "Halls" and "Granges", [...].

   1963 January, Jeffrey P. Burke, “Railway crossroads of the north-west: Shrewsbury”, in Modern Railways, page 55

   Antonyms: fully-fitted

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unfit.