unsuited

comparative more unsuited · superlative most unsuited

1. Not suited to a specific purpose.

   Reggie was a “release” from Guiding Eyes; he kept leading his trainers into light poles, so he was deemed temperamentally unsuited to be a service dog.

   2011 June 11, Robin Finn, “Sunday Routine: Jessica Walter”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2023, retrieved 05 Dec 2011

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   […] we are convinced, from considerable experience and observation, that the class of diseases described by Sir James as unsuited to the climate of Pau, et vice versâ […]

   1842, A. Taylor, “On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrénées, on Disease, &c.”, in The Lancet, volume II, page 885

   It might have been a good thing if he had, unsuited as he was physically, but the mood passed easily under fraternal dissuadings and a feeling of duty toward his father.

   1933, James Truslow Adams, Henry Adams

2. Not compatible; mismatched.
3. Not wearing a suit.

   an unsuited astronaut

4. card gamesNot of the same suit.

   You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.

   2005, Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, page 270