Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate.
At the next lifting of the latch there entered a person with his hat awry upon his head, his clothes perversely ill-suited to his form, his eyes staring in directions opposite to their intelligence, and a certain odd unsuitableness pervading his whole figure.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old ManseSynonyms: unsuitability
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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unsuitableness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsuitableness
“unsuitableness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsuitableness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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